The Nation and Bloomberg ran with it. Two weeks late, but hey, it's something.

Look it up.

America was 50th out of 55 countries in 2014, according to a Bloomberg index that assesses life expectancy, health-care spending per capita and relative spending as a share of gross domestic product. Expenditures averaged $9,403 per person, about 17.1 percent of GDP, that year — the most recent for which data are available — and life expectancy was 78.9. Only Jordan, Colombia, Azerbaijan, Brazil and Russia ranked lower.

Cuba and the Czech Republic — with life expectancy closest to the U.S. at 79.4 and 78.3 years — paid much less on health care: $817 and $1,379 per capita. Switzerland and Norway, the only countries with higher spending than the U.S. — $9,674 and $9,522 — had longer life expectancy, averaging 82.3 years.

Less than 1/10 the cost for better results sure sounds better to me.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/u-s-health-care-system-ranks-as-one-of-the-least-efficient

Just to point out, both of those are PURE opinion pieces with no evidence, and the Bloomberg report sites information it claims it got from a report that did not yet exist when it was written, that report was made public on Friday, the 6th, but the article was published on the 2nd....and even then it was full of conjecture, supposition, and misdirection (like saying "Xagent, a backdoor firmly associated with attacks by a hacker group linked to Russian intelligence -- the one known as Advanced Persistent Threat 28 or Fancy Bear -- could be used by pretty much anyone with the technical knowledge to do so. "
This ignores the fact that only one security firm claims to have been able to retrieve that code (without proof or ability to use it?) and they had a full internet security companies resources. No one besides Russia has ever actually been caught USING it.
So don't trust the cia...but also don't trust biased opinion pieces on the internet.

Emails were leaked, not hacked http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-hacking-intelligence-20170105-story.html

U.S. Intelligence Got the Wrong Cyber Bear https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-02/u-s-intelligence-got-the-wrong-cyber-bear

thanks @radx

Decent write-up of the current hacking hysteria:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-02/u-s-intelligence-got-the-wrong-cyber-bear

And the WaPo was caught in even more lies with regards to their shoddy reporting on the supposed hack of Burlington Electric:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/02/how-the-washington-posts-defense-of-its-russian-hacking-story-unraveled-through-web-archiving

But...

Here's the problem with the story connecting Russia to Donald Trump's email server. https://theintercept.com/2016/11/01/heres-the-problem-with-the-story-connecting-russia-to-donald-trumps-email-server/

and from Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-01/clinton-plugs-another-weak-story-about-trump-s-ties-to-putin

With her campaign sinking in the polls, Hillary Clinton has launched a desperate attack against Trump University to deflect attention away from her deep involvement with a controversial for-profit college that made the Clintons millions, even as the school faced serious legal scrutiny and criminal investigations.


In April 2015, Bill Clinton was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company. The reason for Clinton’s immediate departure: Clinton Cash revealed, and Bloomberg confirmed, that Laureate funneled Bill Clinton $16.46 million over five years while Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. pumped at least $55 million to a group run by Laureate’s founder and chairman, Douglas Becker, a man with strong ties to the Clinton Global Initiative. Laureate has donated between $1 million and $5 million (donations are reported in ranges, not exact amounts) to the Clinton Foundation. Progressive billionaire George Soros is also a Laureate financial backer.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/02/hillary-university-bill-clinton-bagged-16-46-million-from-for-profit-college-as-state-dept-
funneled-55-million-back/

I googled and looked at a few sites like
http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/delegate-count-tracker

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-delegate-tracker/
both of which said 913 left to win.
You're missing DC, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Also, I guess my numbers included super delegates in those remaining states. I couldn't find anywhere that listed what's left to win without the super delegates included, where did you find them?

I wasn't talking about Tesla, but the technology in general. Google's self-driving cars have driven over 1.5 million miles in real-world traffic conditions. Right now, they're limited to inner city driving, but the tech is fundamentally usable.

There is no algorithm for driving. It's not
if (road.isClear)
keepDriving()
else if (child.runsInFront())
brakeLikeHell()

It's based on machine learning and pattern recognition.

This guy built one in his garage.

Is it perfect yet? Nope. But it's already better than humans and that's good enough. The technology is a lot closer than you think.

Another entry in our series "Prison is For Plebs":

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-11/goldman-to-pay-5-1-billion-to-settle-u-s-mortgage-bond-probe

Edit: That's less than their net earnings in '06 alone, nobody gets his/her anus stretched on a daily basis, everyone gets to keep all the bonuses that were based around fraud, aaaaaand.... >50% of this penalty is tax deductible again. So yeah... a job well done by Schneiderman and his band of merry men.

Via NC: Ignored for Years, a Radical Economic Theory Is Gaining Converts

That's Bloomberg reporting on Post-Keynesianism/MMT. On the front page, no less. They paint it as something radical, as if the works of Keynes, Kalecki and Minsky (or Knapp in Germany 100 years ago) never made it out of the dark corners of economic theory. Post-Keynesianism, at its core, is 80 years old, it has merely been pushed aside by monetarists and the likes.

Still, kudos to Bloomberg for shining some light on MMT.

I don't think Bernie has much of a chance to win. The early voting states are generally not very representative of the country. Polls also pretty much always tend to narrow as elections approach.

I think most Democratic voters will look at the Republican hopefuls and pretty much conclude that voting for Hilary at least all but guarantees a Democrat president. Even if it's not Cruz or Trump and someone more competitive such as Rubio, she's still the clear favorite.

I would like to see Bernie win the nomination simply because that would all but guarantee Bloomberg would run and have a very good chance of winning, but I doubt that will be case. With his person wealth he would be genuinely detached from the corruption of political contributions.

The Australian media have been pretty much ignoring the Greece crisis, except for a few brief summaries in the business news, but this week they've suddenly woken up to it. The stories have been Greek families bringing their relatives here during the uncertainty, but also some like this Bloomberg one critical of the EU:

http://m.theage.com.au/world/the-only-reason-the-eu-would-force-greece-to-leave-the-euro-is-to-punish-it-20150701-gi2zfc.html

Proof seems to be lacking in your empty non-argument.
Read something not printed by Murdoch.

Wealthiest Pay Higher Taxes With Scant U.S. Economic Harm
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/wealthiest-pay-higher-taxes-with-scant-u-s-economic-harm.html

"tax increases harm growth is simply false."
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=4094