Across the Great Divide: New Perspectives on the Financial Crisis is published. This is the book form of the joint Brookings-Hoover conference on the financial crisis, organized by Martin Baily and John Taylor. The link allows you to download the whole thing as pdf for free, or buy the book.
Putin’s foreign minister has stated that Russia will recognize the elections in Donetsk and Luhansk. Although Putin has not yet issued formal recognition, the foreign minister and Russia’s media speak on his behalf. The sham elections prove Putin does not want a peaceful solution for the Ukraine conflict.
California’s water bond, or Proposition 1, is priced at $7.5 billion dollars, but it will actually cost California taxpayers an additional $22.50 per year in additional taxes. And, advocates for the water bond, including Gov. Jerry Brown, say it will help fight California droughts, but the money will actually be used to fund projects that will help with future droughts, and not the current one that’s plagued the state for three years.
Patti Solis Doyle, former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, Bill Burton, former deputy White House press secretary, and Bloomberg View's Lanhee Chen discuss Bloomberg Politics projecting Cory Gardner as the winner in Colorado's U.S. Senate race.
Kissinger Associates Vice Chairman Robert Hormats, Bloomberg View Columnist Lanhee Chen and Bloomberg’s Phil Mattingly reports on the 2014 midterm elections
Kissinger Associates Vice Chairman Robert Hormats, Bloomberg View Columnist Lanhee Chen and Bloomberg’s Annie Linskey discuss Republican gains in governor races in the 2014 midterms.
Democrats counting on favorable demographic trends to carry their party to victory in 2016 should consider three significant developments reflected in the outcome of Tuesday’s elections.
It was an end of an era. More than half a million people protesting on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz on Nov. 4, 1989, heralded the unbelievable—the communist bloc of Central and Eastern Europe was going to fall.
In one of the lowest-profile gubernatorial elections in modern California history, Gov. Jerry Brown — who never appeared in a single TV ad on his own behalf — sailed to a historic fourth term Tuesday against little-known Republican Neel Kashkari.
Sandy Weill, Howard Schultz, even possibly Oprah wouldn't make it today. Three of the great disruptors of the past 25 years—all members of CNBC's First 25 list of leaders, icons and rebels that reshaped the past quarter century of business and finance—didn't have the elite education that marks the overwhelming majority of the generation that comprise our CNBC NEXT List of their counterparts who will shape the coming 25 years.
