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What’s
After Iran Frees U.S. Sailors, Questions Linger
Stocks Take
News Beating as
Alarm Grows
Business & Finance
U.S. NEWS
Deficit Falls to Lowest Level Since 2007
BY NICK TIMIRAOS Government spending will that was part of a highway- over the coming decade, while
rise further after last fall’s bi- spending package Congress Democratic candidates have
WASHINGTON—The U.S. partisan agreements between approved last month. proposed costly expansions of
budget deficit ended last year President Barack Obama and Deficits have fallen below college education and public
at its lowest level since 2007, Congress that boost discre- levels that many budget ana- benefits.
marking the sixth straight an- tionary spending caps through lysts expected at the begin- Much of the spending
nual drop. But the declines September 2017 and extend a ning of the decade, in part be- growth in recent months has
may not last without a pickup series of tax breaks for busi- cause borrowing costs have been driven by programs that
in economic growth. nesses and households. remained low, holding down aren’t appropriated on an an-
The deficit in calendar year Economists at Goldman interest costs on the national nual basis by Congress, such
2015 was $478 billion, or Sachs estimate the deficit debt. as Medicare and Social Secu-
BLOOMBERG NEWS
around 2.6% of gross domestic could rise to $650 billion, or The U.S. has added nearly rity. Costs for these programs
product, down from a year- 3.5% of GDP, in the fiscal year $8 trillion in debt since 2007, are projected to climb as more
earlier level of $488 billion, or ending Sept. 30 and to $575 and the nation’s debt-to-GDP baby boomers retire, poten-
2.8% of GDP, the Treasury De- billion, or 3% of GDP, in fiscal ratio has doubled to around tially squeezing discretionary
partment said Wednesday. 2017. 73%, based on federal debt spending.
After the financial crisis, The budget deficit has fallen for six straight years, but the The U.S. ran a deficit of $14 held by the public. Last year, “When I get asked back
the annual deficit peaked in downward trend may not last if the economy doesn’t pick up. billion in December, though af- debt-service costs for the U.S. home, ‘Why are there the bat-
2009 at a level not seen since ter adjusting for certain calen- government fell to 1.2% of tles that you have about gov-
World War II as revenues fell to rise two years ago, but defi- nues rose 6%, versus a 10% dar-related changes in when GDP, from 1.7% in 2008. ernment spending?’ it’s be-
sharply and stimulus flowed. cits continued falling because of gain in 2014. payments are made and re- Critics of larger deficits cause the slice of the pie that
Deficits began to recede in strong receipts to the Treasury, “The tremendous progress ceipts are collected, the govern- worry the presidential cam- we control on the discretion-
2010 as the stimulus faded in part from tax increases that over the past six years in re- ment would have run a surplus paign will further relax fiscal ary side gets smaller and
and revenues stabilized. Con- took effect in 2013. ducing red ink appears to have of around $38 billion, according restraints. Republican presi- smaller and smaller,” House
gress cut spending further af- Now, these dynamics may ended,” said Greg Valliere, to a Treasury analysis. dential candidates are pushing Budget Committee Chairman
ter Republicans took control of be fading. Outlays last year chief global strategist at Hori- December’s receipts in- tax cuts that even under gen- Tom Price (R., Ga.) said
the House in 2011. rose 5%, roughly the same zon Investments, in a recent cluded a large, one-time trans- erous assumptions would add Wednesday at an event at the
Government spending started pace as the year before. Reve- note to clients. fer from the Federal Reserve trillions of dollars to deficits Brookings Institution.
Manufacturing
65 3 16
“superbug” infection dangers firm. As recently as 2012, the engines, transmissions, pumps
from certain scopes used in International Monetary Fund 40 –2 6 and other “intermediate”
gastrointestinal procedures in predicted China would grow an goods for the global commod-
hospitals, according to a re- average of 8.6% a year from 35 –3 Excluding energy 4 Excluding energy ity production chain. Many
port by Senate Democrats re- 2015 through 2017. That out- RECESSION companies earlier in the chain
leased Wednesday. look led many suppliers to in- 30 –4 2 didn’t realize how exposed
The report said that in Sept. vest in added capacity, assum- ’00 ’02 ’04 ’06 ’08 ’10 ’12 ’14 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 2014 ’15
they were to the commodity
2013 staff at a Seattle hospital ing China’s appetite would bust.
Sources: Institute for Supply Management via Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (ISM indexes); Carlyle Group (energy and non-energy
had “traced a cluster of antibi- grow indefinitely. investment and bond yields).
The selloff has spilled into
otic-resistant infections to a What they didn’t appreciate THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. the financial system. Yields on
medical device” called a duo- was that China’s own leaders bonds of energy companies
denoscope, but that it wasn’t had concluded that that have shot up and smaller
until early 2015 that the FDA growth, driven by excessive banks are announcing signifi-
issued a public warning. borrowing, was unsustainable. cant reserves against lending
“The agency took no action China grew an estimated 7% to energy companies. The
to alert hospitals, doctors and last year, and the government’s stress has spread to other bor-
the public to the risk” posed informal target is just 6.5% this rowers: Yields on bonds issued
by the medical scopes, Senate year, a figure many private by nonenergy companies have
investigators wrote. economists consider too high. risen to 7.7% from 5.3% in
The report was commis- Moreover, the economy’s most mid-2014.
sioned by Sen. Patty Murray of commodity-hungry sectors— “Credit-market shocks of
Washington, the top Democrat heavy industry and construc- the sort triggered by the com-
DONG NAIDE/FEATURECHINA/ZUMA PRESS
on the Senate Committee on tion—have led the slowdown. modity-price collapse can
Health, Education, Labor and “Resource development prove quite damaging to
Pensions. A concentration of spending was based on a linear broader economic conditions,”
cases in Seattle made the issue extrapolation of demand from Mr. Thomas says.
a particular concern to Ms. China, which has just proven How bad will it get? Be-
Murray, her aides said. far too optimistic,” says Jason cause output per worker is
A spokesman for committee Thomas, director of research at much higher in manufacturing
chairman Lamar Alexander (R., Carlyle Group, a private-equity and mining than in services,
Tenn.) declined to comment on firm. the pullback in those sectors
why Republican committee The U.S. didn’t sell many affects GDP more than employ-
members didn’t participate in commodities directly to China, ment. Indeed, overall job
the investigation and report. but it sold things to countries The industrial-sector slowing has taken investors by surprise. Here, an aluminum-products factory in China. growth and demand for ser-
FDA officials said Wednes- that did. Their growth has vices so far remain buoyant.
day that they would “carefully slumped along with commod- on oil has been even more dra- Cheng, an analyst at Barclays. ects premised on oil between China’s growth appears to
consider” the Senate report’s ity prices, and capital has fled, matic. From 2011 through early “In early 2014, the general as- $80 to $100, and in loans and have steadied. So absent even
recommendations—such as driving down their currencies 2014, Brent oil was almost al- sumption by industry was that bond issues that valued the more contagion, the U.S. seems
having devices’ identification and pushing up the dollar, cre- ways above $100 per barrel. it can’t drop below $90 be- companies’ reserves at $80 to likely to escape a recession.
numbers included in insurance ating headwinds to U.S. ex- “You had the illusion that it cause Saudi Arabia would de- $100 per barrel. Mr. Thomas Even so, this year will likely
billing records—and that re- ports. was sustainable because vola- fend it.” estimates that energy ac- provide another object lesson
ducing bacterial infections “is The reversal of sentiment tility was very low,” says Paul That fueled a boom in proj- counted for two-thirds of the in taking trends for granted.
a top priority for the agency.”
In August 2015, the agency
recommended more rigorous
cleaning steps for the devices.
The scopes are snaked
down the esophagus into the
STOCKS investors should buckle up for a
bumpy ride.
“Uncertainty over China has
filtered into all asset markets,”
are considered more defensive
bets, have slipped 0.3% this
year.
For the year to date, the Dow
sharp decline in energy compa-
nies’ earnings is pressuring the
outlook for broad stock in-
dexes.
“We were actually joking in-
ternally that even if the U.S.
goes into recession, this com-
bined company will probably
top of the small intestine for Continued from Page One said Brian Daingerfield, a cur- is down 7.3%, the S&P has fallen Buyers piled into A-B InBev’s benefit,” said Christopher Coo-
diagnostic and treatment pro- retailers. Technology stocks rency strategist at RBS Securi- 7.5% and the Nasdaq lost 9.6%. bond sale, which attracted lidge, a portfolio manager at
cedures. These involve the also bore the brunt of the exo- ties. Nymex crude has fallen 18% and more than $100 billion of or- Brandywine Global Investment
liver, bile ducts and pancreas, dus. The Dow industrials fell Brent crude is down 19%. ders. Many said they were en- Management, which manages
and are often used in patients Investors scrambled to buy 364.81 points, or 2.2%, to “You look across the spec- ticed by the relatively attrac- about $69 billion in assets and
with cancer-related blockages. high-grade bonds, which are 16151.41. The S&P 500 dropped trum, and there’s been nowhere tive yields offered on the debt put an order in for the bonds.
The FDA has estimated more viewed as a haven from eco- 2.5% and the Nasdaq Composite to really go and hide,” said Sa- and the company’s investment- “If we hit a recession, every-
than 660,000 procedures a nomic and financial unrest. declined 3.4%. hak Manuelian, managing di- grade credit ratings, which are body drinks more.”
year are done with the devices. Brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev Some of the biggest gainers rector in equity trading at Wed- in the single-A range. Indirect bidding at Wednes-
Difficulty in cleaning scopes NV on Wednesday sold $46 bil- of 2015 fell. Amazon.com Inc., bush Securities. The bonds also give inves- day’s Treasury auction, a proxy
between patients has led to in- lion of bonds to fund its acqui- which contributed the most Home Depot Inc. shares de- tors exposure to a relatively re- for foreign demand, jumped to
fection outbreaks, including at sition of rival SABMiller PLC, in points to the S&P 500 last year, clined 4.8%, leading the Dow cession-resistant source of con- 71%, the second-highest on re-
Virginia Mason Hospital and the second-largest corporate fell 5.8%. Shares of Google par- Industrials lower. The retailer sumer spending and a haven cord for the 10-year auction.
Medical Center in Seattle. debt sale on record after a 2013 ent Alphabet fell 3.5% and Face- has rallied 17% over the past 12 away from troubled energy and —Mike Cherney and Min Zeng
The report said that from sale by Verizon Communica- book shares lost 4%. The Nas- months as investors bet that mining companies. contributed to this article.
2012 through spring 2015, such tions Inc. There were more the housing sector, a core area
scopes were linked to at least than $2 of orders for each dol- of the U.S. economy, remained
‘You look across the
CORRECTIONS
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25 different incidents of drug- lar of bonds sold, a sign that in- on relatively solid ground. (USPS 664-880)
resistant infections that sick- vestors are eager for securities spectrum and there’s “The cheapest stocks are the (Eastern Edition ISSN 0099-9660)
AMPLIFICATIONS
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U.S. NEWS
Officer’s
Shooting
New Wish List for Safety Board
With no airliner crash
Probed as in seven years, NTSB
focuses on highway
Terrorism and rail enhancements
BY DEVLIN BARRETT BY ANDY PASZTOR
CHICAGO—The administra-
tion of Mayor Rahm Emanuel
saying in the wake of the
McDonald video the Emanuel
administration is trying to
only one hand and then ran
from the car.
During the foot chase, the
For Medicaid
dropped its opposi-
tion Wednesday to releasing
strike a balance between
transparency and the judicial
teenager turned slightly and
Officer Kevin Fry saw a dark
Expansion
CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
video of the fatal shooting in process. object that he believed was a BY LOUISE RADNOFSKY
2013 of a black teenager by The release of the video handgun. The officer fired his
police, clearing the way for footage is now in the hands of weapon four times, killing Mr. The Obama administration
the footage to become public U.S. District Judge Robert Get- Chatman, according to the is proposing to extend a finan-
as criticism of the mayor and tleman. The city filing came court filings. cial sweetener the federal gov-
police department remain ahead of a hearing on the A lawyer for Mr. Fry said ernment offers states that ex-
strong. video footage scheduled the video will demonstrate the pand their Medicaid programs,
City lawyers had fought to for Thursday. facts in the incident are clear in a bid to persuade more to
block the release of the video Lawyers for the family of and an expert in police use of do so before the president
of the shooting of 17-year-old Mr. Chatman have been pres- force concluded the shooting leaves office.
Cedrick Chatman, but changed suring the city to release the was justified. White House officials said
their stance as the Emanuel Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, right, and John Escalante, interim video. Mark Smolens, a lawyer for that President Barack Obama
administration remains under police superintendent, in December. Mr. Chatman was shot by the Chatman family, said the will ask Congress to include
pressure in the wake of the re- police in January 2013 as offi- teenager was fleeing from po- three years of full federal
lease two months ago of a times by a city police officer. video is part of a lawsuit filed cers investigated a carjacking. lice when shot and was hold- funding of expansion for any
dashboard video of the police The video of the 2014 shooting against the city by the family In court documents, city law- ing in his hand the box an state that extends eligibility
shooting of Laquan McDonald. has led to the dismissal of the of Mr. Chatman arguing the yers say two officers ap- iPhone comes in. He said the for the program to most low-
The McDonald video, which police superintendent, a Jus- shooting was unjustified. Law- proached a car that matched shooting was captured on sur- income residents. Officials
the Emanuel administration tice Department investigation yers for the city have said the the description of the vehicle veillance cameras in the area said that the proposal will be
had also attempted to keep and calls by protesters for Mr. release of the video could in the carjacking and con- and described the video foot- made in Mr. Obama’s fiscal
from being released, shows Emanuel to step down. taint the jury pool in the case. fronted Mr. Chatman, who was age, which he has reviewed, as 2017 budget, to be released
the teenager being shot 16 The fight over the new But in a filing Wednesday, in the car. When told to show sickening. Feb. 9.
That funding has previously
only been available to states
Speaker Ryan Tries to Get His House in Order for the calendar years of 2014,
2015 and 2016—meaning that
its value had all but expired
for the 20 states that haven't
BY KRISTINA PETERSON nouncement on the floor last cally two or five minutes. legislation. The bill is aimed at House agreed unanimously to agreed to participate. Under
AND SIOBHAN HUGHES week about keeping vote times Lawmakers often dawdle, ensuring that individuals in- consider the vote “null” and the terms of the 2010 Afford-
closer to the allotted time,” with most arriving in a rush volved in Iran’s ballistic-mis- redo it the week of Jan. 25. able Care Act, the federal gov-
House Speaker Paul Ryan Brendan Buck, a spokesman toward the end of the 15 min- sile program or terrorism The House will be out of ses- ernment funds most of the
sent a message to the House for Mr. Ryan, said Wednesday. utes, prompting the presiding won’t get any of the sanctions sion the rest of this week as cost of expansion, but states
on Wednesday: enough with “While we’ll continue to make officer to keep the votes open relief Iran is due to receive as Republicans meet for a retreat eventually have to pay around
the lollygagging. that a priority, because many for much longer to accommo- soon as the nuclear deal in Baltimore, and the chamber 10% of the costs of expansion.
The Wisconsin Republican members missed this impor- date latecomers. reached with the U.S. and five is on recess next week. Louisiana is set to become
last week started nudging the tant vote, it was vacated and Not any longer. other nations is implemented House Minority Leader the 31st state to participate af-
chamber to get more efficient we’ll revote when we return.” “As a point of courtesy to in coming days. The bill passed Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said ter the surprise win of Demo-
when voting. His message Mr. Ryan, elected speaker at each of your colleagues, voting in a 191-106 vote. Wednesday that while the Iran crat John Bel Edwards in last
must not have sunk in, because the end of October, last week within the allotted time would When it was clear that a vote was cut off in a “prema- November’s gubernatorial
so many lawmakers missed warned lawmakers they should help with the maintenance of significant number of lawmak- ture” way, she supported Mr. race. Mr. Edwards signed an
weighing in on high-profile arrive on the House floor for the institution,” Mr. Ryan said. ers from both parties were up- Ryan’s efforts to streamline executive order to initiate that
Iran sanctions legislation that votes within the 15 minutes But extracting punctuality set to have missed the vote, the voting process. “The process on Tuesday, a day af-
GOP leaders ended up scrap- typically set as the minimum from 435 voting lawmakers House Majority Leader Kevin speaker is rightfully serious ter he was sworn in.
ping the vote and rescheduling amount of time for the first has proved difficult. On McCarthy (R., Calif.) asked to about expeditiously dealing Mr. Obama is set to travel
it for later this month. vote in a series. Subsequent Wednesday, 137 members vacate it. Because no one ob- with the votes in a timely fash- to Louisiana Thursday to
“The speaker made an an- votes are often shorter, typi- didn’t vote on the sanctions jected to that request, the ion,” she said. praise the move.
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that they are too big to fail. is no indication that his wife
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a for- was involved with the loan.
mer banker, has said Wall
‘The business ‘If the big banks ‘These big banks ‘Would you Mr. Cruz disclosed those
Street needs “a good ethics model of Wall don’t play by go around bail out the big loans to Senate officials as re-
lesson...on a regular basis.” quired by congressional rules
Sen. Ted Cruz, whose wife is a
Street is fraud. the rules, I will bragging about it banks again? ... but didn’t tell federal election
banker, has said he wouldn’t That’s what it is.’ break them up.’ [too big to fail].’ Absolutely not.’ authorities about the loans, as
bail out “rich Wall Street required by election rules.
banks.” Even former Florida The omission was first re-
Gov. Jeb Bush, who worked at BERNIE SANDERS HILLARY CLINTON MARCO RUBIO TED CRUZ ported by the New York
Lehman Brothers and Barclays Times on Wednesday.
PLC, has said banks should be Mr. Cruz told reporters late
required to hold even more nancial institutions. held public ire over banks’ role “There is a nasty and igno- mont senator “ignores the cri- Wednesday that “those loans
capital. Not all banks are on board. in the financial crisis and their rant view of Wall Street, but I sis-era mergers that the have been disclosed over and
The bashfest has put banks Some forum members believe subsequent taxpayer-funded don’t see it translating into a government urged large banks over and over again on multi-
in a quandary: Do they defend an outreach campaign could bailouts. Critics have accused legislative bloodbath for to make to stabilize the econ- ple filings. If it was the case
themselves or sit it out? hurt the industry more than banks of failing to learn the banks,” said Gregory Valliere, omy. Since Dodd-Frank, large that they were not filed ex-
Some bankers, including help it at a time when public lessons of the crisis and for chief global strategist of Hori- banks have actually gotten actly as the FEC requires,
those at J.P. Morgan Chase & opinion is tilted heavily enriching themselves—or be- zon Investments, an asset smaller.” Dodd-Frank is the then we’ll amend the filings.
Co. and Citigroup Inc., are fed against banks, the people said. coming bigger—at the expense manager. “But the industry 2010 law designed to limit But all of the information has
up enough with what they They say much of the anti- of working people. needs to spend more time ed- risks to the U.S. financial sys- been public and transparent
consider inaccurate portrayals bank rhetoric is politically ex- What has irked some senior ucating people.” tem. for many years and that’s the
that they are encouraging a pedient, and that the candi- bankers isn’t that they are be- Hamilton Place Strategies, a Analysts say both sides are end of that.”
trade group to reach out to dates generally have more- ing demonized, but that some consulting firm whose clients appealing to voters’ distrust of A spokesman for Goldman
candidates, according to peo- nuanced views of the industry of the presidential hopefuls include large banks and the Fi- the financial sector. Guggen- Sachs declined to comment.
ple familiar with the matter. than they have stated publicly. are going after a version of nancial Services Forum, has heim Securities LLC banking Citigroup also declined to
The Financial Services Fo- They also worry that any out- the biggest banks that the in- been doing just that. Hours af- analyst Jaret Seiberg cau- comment. There is no allega-
rum has held talks with its reach could be seen as the in- dustry insists doesn’t exist ter Mr. Sanders attacked banks tioned investors “not to get tion that the banks did any-
members about whether to en- dustry’s attempt to shape can- anymore. Many are bracing for in a speech last week about bogged down” by whether Mr. thing improper.
gage with advisers from the didates’ messages. more fire on Thursday night, Wall Street reform, the firm Sanders’s commentary about Mr. Cruz disclosed to the
presidential campaigns to de- As a result, the group could when Fox Business Network sent out a client note titled banks was “technically true.” FEC at the time that he had
tail how their industry has decide to leave it to individual hosts the first GOP presiden- “Sanders wrong on large Bankers and their trade put in roughly $1 million in
gotten smaller and safer since bankers to make their cases tial debate of the year, where banks, again.” representatives say they have personal funds into his elec-
regulations were implemented with candidates, they said. candidates will discuss eco- Responding to a charge that already been reaching out in- tion campaign, but he didn't
after the 2008 financial crisis, Still, this election is un- nomic issues. Democratic can- banks have gotten bigger since formally to their contacts at disclose that the source of
the people said. The forum usual: Candidates on both didates will debate Sunday on the crisis, the note from Ham- the various campaigns, direct- that money may have been
represents 16 of the largest fi- sides are playing to widely NBC News. ilton Place said that the Ver- ing staffers to research about the loans he received from
bank debt, capital and liquid- Citigroup and Goldman Sachs
ity levels. at about the same time.
The push for the most re- Mr. Cruz first disclosed the
cent outreach discussions with loans on his congressional fi-
the forum came after the nancial disclosure forms in
fourth Republican debate in July 2012, a few months be-
November, where candidates fore the election. Those fil-
were asked about financial re- ings show that he took out a
form. “margin loan” of between
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WORLD NEWS
Denmark At Least 6 Explosions Rock Downtown Jakarta
JAKARTA—At least one per-
Nazi Germany. attack on Syrian regime forces fended their military backing
But the Danish government at an airport. Mr. Taaei, who for Syrian President Bashar al-
is continuing to press ahead now lives in Kuwait, said he Assad’s regime as a fight
with measures authorities de- had spoken to relatives, in- against Middle Eastern terror-
scribe as attempts to make cluding Mr. Fadli’s cousin. ism, but the U.S. and its allies
the country less attractive to Turkish officials looking have criticized President
immigrants. into Mr. Fadli’s background Vladimir Putin for propping up
Last year, as the number of said they also learned that his the Syrian dictator.
migrants fleeing Syria was brother had been a suicide Turkey will step up its in-
rapidly rising, the Danish gov- bomber at an airport in Syria. telligence gathering opera-
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WORLD NEWS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
judgments against Iran. They termination is that the 10 sail-
haven’t been able to collect, ors were treated well and with
leading lawmakers in 2012 to respect after Iranian forces
pass legislation giving them detained their two small Navy
the explicit right to about $2 boats in the Persian Gulf on
billion in frozen assets tied to Tuesday. But the videos de- A photo released by the Iranian government on Wednesday shows the U.S. sailors being detained at an undisclosed location in Iran.
the Bank Markazi, the coun- picted questionable actions by
try’s central bank. Iran’s elite military force, the years ago,” Secretary of State sailors as unjustifiable, and as- flict was under way. tional confrontation.
Chief Justice John Roberts Islamic Revolutionary Guard John Kerry said in a speech at sailed the White House and But James Ross, legal and The Pentagon said the Navy
said he was concerned Con- Corps. the National Defense Univer- State Department for praising policy director of Human had lost contact with the two
gress had gone too far in dic- The Geneva Conventions, sity. “It is clear that today is a Iran over the episode. Rights Watch, said it has long boats while they were en route
tating how courts must handle which govern military con- testament to the critical role “The administration is pre- been recognized that it is un- from Kuwait to Bahrain on a
a legal matter. Other justices flicts, ban the practice of pa- that diplomacy plays in keep- tending as if nothing out of lawful for governments to use training mission, and Iranian
suggested Congress has the rading prisoners for purposes ing our country safe, secure the ordinary has occurred,” photographs or videos of mili- state media said the vessels
power to apply new laws to of “insults” and propaganda. and strong.” said Sen. John McCain (R., tary detainees for propaganda had trespassed by more than a
pending court cases. The State Department said The diplomatic scramble Ariz.), chairman of the Senate purposes, including publicly mile into Iranian waters.
“The political branches Wednesday afternoon that U.S. headed off a potential military Armed Services Committee. releasing a “confession.” They were held overnight
have a great deal of power in officials were looking into the confrontation. A U.S. military “By failing to affirm basic “While the Geneva Conven- on Iran’s Farsi Island. The
this area, even when it comes videos and would respond if official said Wednesday that a principles of international law, tions may not formally apply IRGC gave them food and
to very particular controver- the U.S. determined that the plan for a possible, eventual here, the Iranian government blankets, Mr. Kerry said.
sies,” Justice Elena Kagan said. sailors were treated inappro- rescue was being assembled actions would appear to be The IRGC released the sail-
The outcome of the Bank priately. but was “throttled back” as
The U.S. and Iran contrary to the intention of ors early Wednesday after de-
Markazi v. Peterson case “We’ve seen no indications the State Department neared a touted the sailors' the Geneva Conventions,” Mr. termining that they entered
wasn’t clear. thus far that they were mis- diplomatic solution. Ross said. Iranian waters unintentionally,
Because of other recent leg- treated during their period of Mr. Kerry noted that until
release as a product A senior administration of- Iran said. The sailors left Farsi
islative developments, the vic- detention,” State Department recently, the two sides hadn’t of improved relations. ficial said it was unclear which Island aboard the same boats
tims might be in line to collect spokesman Mark Toner said. spoken in 35 years. faction of the government in and were met by a U.S. Navy
some money even if the case Both the U.S. and Iran The State Department has Iran released the videos. The cruiser in international wa-
doesn’t go their way. touted the swift resolution of yet to determine whether the it places our Navy and Coast video could be a manifestation ters.
A congressional spending the incident—the sailors were Geneva Conventions apply in Guard vessels and the men of Iran’s domestic politics at Officials are looking into
deal reached in December calls released less than 24 hours af- this case, or whether the and women who sail them at play and the administration’s whether one of the sailors
for compensating terror attack ter they were detained—as a treatment of the sailors shown increased risk in the future.” response would depend on may have “fat-fingered” a nav-
victims through a government product of the closer ties they in the video is in violation of Though Iran is a signatory who put the video out, the of- igation unit, entering errone-
fund, including with money have built in the negotiating of the international treaties, to the applicable parts of the ficial said. ous coordinates and veering
the government obtained the Iranian nuclear deal and a which governs the treatment Geneva Conventions, experts The release of the 10 sailors into Iranian waters by mis-
through $9 billion in penalties potential model for the future. of war prisoners. on international law said that, and two U.S. naval vessels take.
levied against BNP Paribas SA “I think we can all imagine Regardless, some U.S. law- based on what is known so far, Wednesday ended an episode —Colleen McCain Nelson
for violating U.S. economic how a similar situation might makers described the arrest the treaties might not formally that briefly threatened to and Carol E. Lee
sanctions. have played out three or four and detention of the 10 U.S. apply because no armed con- mushroom into an interna- contributed to this article.
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OPINION
Obama’s Legacy: Trump and Bernie BOOKSHELF | By Howard W. French
There is Ba-
rack Obama’s
State of the
producing jobs, which is true,
and that it is “peddling fic-
tion” to say the U.S. economy
price. More businesses being
born than dying is where real
jobs come from, not the gov-
awake every night thinking
about jobs making . . . wind-
mills and solar panels.
The Other
Union and
there is the
state of the
union anyone
“is in decline.” Really?
The U.S. economy’s average
annual growth rate since
World War II has been about
ernment tooth fairy. This data
is a portrait of an economy
losing its innate dynamism.
That’s the real cause of
And we’ve got a revolution.
People wonder what ac-
counts for the rise of Donald
Trump and Bernie Sanders.
Refugee Crisis
WONDER
LAND else can see.
The new
3%. In Mr. Obama’s seven
years it has been about 2%.
“anger” in the U.S. electorate.
We’re supposed to believe
Maybe the better question is
how the Obama years could
City of Thorns
By Daniel
year began Some 65% of people think the that long-term “structural” not have produced a Trump By Ben Rawlence
Henninger
with an un- U.S. is on the wrong track. factors are causing these and Sanders. (Picador, 384 pages, $26)
T
derground You can discover a lot about shifts. Maybe. And if you Both the Republican and,
nuclear-bomb test in North the wrong track in that miss- want to wail about income to a lesser extent, Demo- he most absorbing book in recent memory about life in
Korea, the worst first week ing 1% of economic growth, cratic parties have elements refugee camps opens nowhere near that miserable,
for the Dow since 1897, and Mr. Obama’s “new normal.” now who want to pull down cloistered world. Disarmingly, Ben Rawlence begins
Iran forcing 10 U.S. sailors to The president is correct How could Obama’s the temple. But for all the “City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee
their knees. that the economy is creating politicized agitation, both Camp” in a room without windows at the White House. As
But the man delivering the jobs, but an alternative view policies not have these movements, in power, an expert on the Horn of Africa, he was there in October
State of the Union is “opti- would be that he has proven it produced the Donald would produce stasis—no 2014 to brief members of the National Security Council
mistic” because “uncondi- is not possible to kill an econ- change at all. about Dadaab, a scorching, ramshackle conurbation of some
tional love” will win. omy with a GDP of $16 trillion. and Bernie Sanders? Donald Trump would pre- 500,000 people in remote northern Kenya, near that coun-
Let’s get just one SotU Here’s what the new nor- side over a divided govern- try’s border with Somalia.
venting out of the way before mal looks like. The gold stan- ment or, as he has promised Mr. Rawlence, a former researcher for Human Rights Watch
considering what Mr. Obama dard of new job creation is disparity, go ahead. But if so, and un-promised, a trade war who had spent time in the camp, had come to Washington in
has wrought for his country business starts. Indeed, Mr. it is the president’s job to get with China. Hillary or Bernie hopes of persuading the policy makers of how wrong their ap-
and its politics as he turns Obama said his new online impediments out of the way. will enlarge the Obama eco- proach to the Somali refugee crisis was. The hundreds of
into his final year. tools “give an entrepreneur Instead, this presidency has nomic regime. Either outcome thousands of people flowing out of that failed country were
It is beyond any conceiv- everything he or she needs to created them. guarantees four more years of being systematically abused by
able pale that Mr. Obama start a business in a single For example, Kauffman’s at best 2% economic growth. Kenya, America’s most impor-
would fail at least to note the day.” Perhaps not everything. report also notes that the rate That means more of the above. tant ally in the region. For its
14 Americans gunned down in According to the U.S. Bu- of entrepreneurship among That means 18-year-olds vot- security forces, the displaced
San Bernardino by committed reau of Labor Statistics, the people age 20-34—who hire ing for the first time this year people had become the targets
Islamic terrorists, even as he number of business establish- employees like themselves, will face historically weak job of an immense racket.
stood there lecturing the ments less than one year old new breadwinners—began opportunities through 2020 at Desperate Somalis were
country, at least three times, rose steadily from 550,000 in dropping fast in 2011. The least. fleeced at roadblocks on their
about not turning against 1997, peaked at about president said Tuesday that Under any of these three, way into the country or rounded
others’ religion. In the past, 650,000 in 2006, and then ObamaCare would help new- an Americanized European up on the streets of Nairobi, where
he said, we have “turned to- has gone straight down. The business formation. It is social-welfare state will they were forced to pay exorbitant
ward God.” Ugh. Kauffman Foundation’s 2015 doing the opposite. Millenni- evolve because Washington— bribes or subjected to having their
In fact, seven years of the entrepreneurship report puts als, assumed to be the Obama and this will include many identity papers ripped up on the
Obama presidency have left startups in 2012 at just over base, have entered adulthood “conservatives”—will answer spot. They were often beaten, raped
the United States with a his- 400,000. to endure a decade of slow still-rising popular anger or returned to their violence-
torically weak economy and a The Brookings Institution growth. with new income redistribu- stricken homeland. Meanwhile, according
degraded national politics. in a 2014 report noted that The leaders of Communist tions. to Mr. Rawlence, the Kenyan government had all
The causal legacy of those since 2008 businesses closing China lie awake at night And for years afterward, but annexed adjacent regions of Somalia, which it used to run
two realities are—Donald annually have exceeded start- worrying about creating 10 Barack Obama will stroll off an elaborate operation that generated millions of dollars from
Trump and Bernie Sanders. ups for the first time. Their million new jobs every year to the 18th green, smiling. Mis- a bustling underground trade in smuggled sugar, which Ken-
Mr. Obama said in his yearly analysis dates to 1978. prevent a revolution. The sion, finally, accomplished. yan leaders use to finance their political machines.
speech that the economy is That relative decline has a elected leader of the U.S. lies Write to henninger@wsj.com The NSC staff nodded politely as he detailed his views.
But when it came to asking questions, they had but one pre-
occupation: Were the abusive conditions he described lead-
The GOP’s Chase for Undecided Iowans ing to Islamic radicalization? If not, Mr. Rawlence concludes,
“the refugees could be safely forgotten.”
But not by him. In the ensuing months, working not as a
By Karl Rove Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santo- Most late deciders are not slow territories and the District of human-rights advocate but as a writer, Mr. Rawlence was
W
rum sat in sixth place in Iowa, to wake up to the campaign. Columbia start to vote in early able to give a fairly definitive answer to the NSC query. The
hen the GOP presiden- with 6% in the Real Clear Poli- Rather, they are deciding late March. half-million people of Dadaab, mostly Somalis, but also Su-
tial candidates gather tics average. But late deciders because they hope to absorb as The morning after each con- danese, Ethiopians, Eritreans and others, some of them al-
in North Charleston, helped him jump to 24.6% and much information as possible. test, news coverage will focus ready encamped there for three generations, exhibit few
S.C., on Thursday—19 days be- win the state. Former Speaker So they have heard all the cam- not only on who won—that signs of religious extremism. Their overwhelming dream,
fore the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses— Newt Gingrich, who led 19 paigns’ shopworn lines, and obviously matters—but also on which few of them will ever realize, is to find a way out,
for the Fox Business debate, days out with 26%, finished in candidates will need something any surprises. If someone fin- whether through refugee lotteries conducted by various
much will hang on their perfor- fourth place with 13.3%. new to close the sale. ishes better than predicted, it Western countries or via the perilous and costly illegal trek
mances. Even more could de- That’s much different from Organization counts, too, will draw attention, possibly a to Europe. Some retain the hope that Somalia will somehow
pend on the Jan. 28 Fox News what happened in Iowa in particularly in a caucus state lot. Expected outcomes, even if be restored to economic viability and peace.
debate in Des Moines. These 2008: 19 days out that year, like Iowa where turnout is they are solid finishes, could be
are the last big opportunities former Govs. Mike Huckabee low—19% in 2012, compared treated as nonevents. Such cov-
for candidates to impress a with 24.5% in the New Hamp- erage could winnow the field. Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp,
large audience and shake up shire primary. Volunteers in That could blunt Mr. Trump’s is also a city replete with movie theaters,
the race, just as many early- At this point in 2012, each precinct who beg, inspire, ability to win delegates in the
state voters are deciding whom cajole and push supporters to early March proportional states soccer leagues, markets, hotels and hospitals.
to back. Rick Santorum—who the polls can make all the dif- and keep him from carrying
In 2012, 46% of New Hamp- won the caucuses—sat ference. winner-take-all states starting
shire GOP primary voters said Candidates have an advan- mid-March. Mr. Rawlence’s major feat is stripping away the anonym-
they made up their mind in the sadly at 6% support. tage if their support is drawn What happens in Iowa rarely ity that so often is attached to the word “refugee” by delving
contest’s final three days, and primarily from groups that are foreshadows what happens deeply into the lives of nine people in the camp. By doing so,
21% waited until Election Day, more likely to vote, like party next. But the outcome in New he transforms its denizens from faceless victims into three-
according data from the and Mitt Romney were first activists, seniors and die-hard Hampshire has historically dimensional human beings. Along the way, Dadaab emerges
University of New Hampshire and second in the Real Clear conservatives. Here Texas Sen. changed minds in South Caro- from the ever-present heat and dust to become much more
Survey Center cited in this Politics average, with 34% and Ted Cruz may have an edge in lina—and may have an even than a refugee camp. It is a real, if very peculiar, city; a
newspaper. 23.3%, respectively. They fin- Iowa: He beats Donald Trump bigger effect this year. In 2008 world of mud huts with tin roofs but replete with movie the-
A similar pattern held in the ished in that order with 34.4% 36% to 21% among “conserva- there were 18 days between the aters, soccer leagues, markets, hotels and hospitals. Most of
2012 Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 and 25.2%. tive” and “very conservative” two primaries; this year there Dadaab’s people are poor, but there is a middle class and a
of that year: 28% of Republican What will influence late voters, and 27% to 24% among are only 11. Momentum from wealthy elite, some of whom got their starts in the black
caucusgoers said they decided deciders? One thing is how voters over 45, according to a the Granite State matters. market by selling their own ration cards. What unites many
whom to support “in the last many days each candidate Jan. 7 poll by Marist, NBC and In a few weeks, our national of these people, Mr. Rawlence writes, is buufis, a Somali
few days,” and 18% on caucus spends in Iowa and New Hamp- The Wall Street Journal. obsession with the latest polls word coined in the camp. “It is a kind of depression rooted
day, according to exit polls. shire, and the quality of their Candidates must have gives way to actual voting. Now in an inextinguishable hope for a life elsewhere that casts
Another 21% said that they events. Late deciders are look- money in the bank and big lists is the moment for great candi- the present into shadow.”
made up their mind in Decem- ing for energetic and appealing of donors, especially of Internet dates to raise their game. “City of Thorns” is built around its characters, several of
ber. So a whopping 67% of Re- presentations, delivered up contributors, to see them them couples, and they are chosen particularly well. Early in
publicans chose their horse in close and personal. Watch who through the race. Time spent at Mr. Rove helped organize the book, we follow the harrowing flight from Mogadishu of
the last month before the cau- struts their stuff in the early fundraisers now is time not the political-action committee a young man named Guled, who is rounded up by the ex-
cuses. states in coming weeks. spent pressing the flesh in American Crossroads and is tremist militia known as al-Shabaab and forced to work for
But will these late deciders Contenders better have Iowa, New Hampshire and even the author of “The Triumph of its morality police, the Hizbat.
upset the contest, as they did fresh, substantive messages; South Carolina, where the focus William McKinley: Why the When he finally reaches Dadaab, after a tense, cinematic es-
in 2012? Nineteen days before regurgitating tired stump will soon move. Then the pres- 1896 Election Still Matters” cape that includes a nighttime ride atop a rickety truck over-
that year’s caucuses, former speeches may not do the job. sure explodes, as 21 states, two (Simon & Schuster, 2015). loaded with sacks of sugar, he becomes obsessed with finding
a way to have his wife, Maryam, join him. Some months later,
she arrives pregnant and increasingly aggrieved that the ideal-
The EPA’s Politics in the Raw ized picture of life in the camp that he had provided her has
little basis in reality. Unable to find good work, he gives his life
over to soccer, causing her to return home with their children
By A.J. Kritikos “covert propaganda.” Simply builders of the administrative the details, lawmakers have amid much anger and mutual recrimination.
I
put, citizens deserve to know state imagined that regulators delegated away their exclusive Muna and Monday, another couple, come from starkly dif-
t’s official: The Environ- when messages presented to would be unbiased experts, who power to make law. ferent backgrounds. The rebellious Muna, like nearly all So-
mental Protection Agency them were created by their would come to objective con- Most of the Supreme Court malis, is Muslim. Monday, a southern Sudanese, is Christian.
has violated federal law by government. clusions about the best policy. is complicit. Alone among the The two met and fell in love in the camp. For crossing this re-
engaging in “covert propa- The violation for “grassroots That notion has been shown to sitting justices, Clarence ligious divide in a camp effectively segregated by nationality
ganda” and “grassroots lobby- lobbying” stemmed from an be woefully naive. Thomas has suggested a will- and religion, they face death threats, and their marriage be-
ing.” That is the finding of a EPA blog post that linked to Anyone who doubts that the ingness to invalidate these gins breaking down under the strain. But their situation also
Dec. 14 report by the Govern- websites encouraging readers EPA views itself as a political unconstitutional delegations. In provides a seeming way out: an asylum case based on reli-
ment Accountability Office— to, for example, “urge your sen- actor should read its response a concurring opinion last year, gious persecution.
though EPA bureaucrats are ators to defend Clean Water Act to the investigations. Liz Mr. Thomas wrote that the jus- Typical of Mr. Rawlence’s closely observed reporting is a
unrepentant. safeguards for critical streams Purchia, a public affairs offi- tices “have too long abrogated pre-departure interview the two of them hold with Australian
The investigation began in and wetlands.” Federal law pro- cial, argued in a blog post that our duty to enforce the separa- immigration officials via video conference. “A young blond
June, after Sen. Jim Inhofe (R., hibits administrative agencies the Thunderclap page was tion of powers.” He lamented man asked Muna and Monday questions about their problems
Okla.) requested that the GAO from lobbying the public to sup- properly labeled, and that the the growth of “a vast and unac- in the presence of their children and two interpreters and
review the EPA’s online activi- port or oppose pending legisla- EPA never urged the public to countable administrative appa- they told him their story just as they had told it countless
ties, including its aggressive tion. As the GAO report notes, contact lawmakers. ratus that finds no comfortable times before,” he writes. “They made a kiss for the Australian
promotion of the new “waters at least a dozen bills in Con- What’s telling is Ms. Pur- home in our constitutional even though they had spent the whole morning waiting in si-
of the United States” regula- gress sought to prevent the chia’s tone. She wrote that crit- structure.” lence not talking to each other and had already come to a pri-
tory rule. EPA’s new waters rule from be- ics are “grasping at anything to Hear, hear. The questions vate arrangement that when they got to Australia they would
Investigators concluded ing implemented. distract from and derail our facing the country don’t lend live in separate houses.”
that the EPA illegally used At bottom, the report con- progress.” She attacked “those themselves to objective, expert It is the rare, ultimate success of people like these that
Thunderclap, a social media cluded that the EPA’s overtly who question the well-estab- answers, and choosing what to makes life survivable, even if only barely, for the thousands
site, “to correct what it political actions “preclude a lished science behind climate do with scarce resources al- who will likely grow old and die in the camp. The fate of the
viewed as misinformation.” good faith characterization” of change.” And she assailed ways involves trade-offs. The Dadaab refugees has been almost completely overshadowed by
Government use of social me- the facts. Sen. Inhofe has now “backward-thinkers” who want way to take politics out of another refugee crisis, namely the hundreds of thousands of
dia is not unlawful in itself. requested that the GAO review the EPA to “operate as if we administrative agencies is people who have been streaming into Europe from Syria. But
But the agency crossed the the way that the EPA promoted live in the Stone Age.” simple: Take from them the even if the Dadaab refugees hadn’t been disregarded, in a
line by asking supporters to its Clean Power Plan, which Who do we have to blame power to make policy. world now flooded with tens of millions of displaced people,
share an EPA-written message requires states to cut carbon- for this state of affairs? Con- chances are that the West would have done very little.
on Facebook or Twitter with- dioxide emissions from elec- gress, for one. By passing Mr. Kritikos, a former clerk
out attributing it to the gov- tricity-generating plants. vague statutes with general for the U.S. Court of Appeals Mr. French teaches at Columbia’s Graduate School of Jour-
ernment. This failure to attri- Executive agencies aren’t goals and authorizing execu- for the Third Circuit, is a nalism. He is the author of “China’s Second Continent: How a
bute caused the violation for supposed to be political. The tive agencies to come up with lawyer in private practice. Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa.”
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OPINION
REVIEW & OUTLOOK LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Clinton Mail Baggage The PC Orcs Lay Siege to Our Civilization
H
illary Clinton has taken to attacking you choose, but there is no documentary evi- Daniel Henninger’s “Revolt of the class ones who might even be consid-
Bernie Sanders in the wake of polls dence that she made this classified versus un- Politically Incorrect” (Wonder Land, ered among the elite. They see that
Jan. 7) brings back painful memories political correctness has stymied
showing the Vermont socialist is beat- classified distinction to Mr. Sullivan. There is when I, as a junior professor at Ore- thought. As Mr. Henninger says, “A
ing her in Iowa and New evidence of the former Secre- gon State University, wrote an article fair-minded person would concede
Hampshire. The fascinating Are Hillary’s ethics tary of State instructing an to the school’s newspaper, the Barom- that many of these controversial sub-
question is how much Bernie’s behind the Bernie aide to ignore security proce- eter, about the useless nature of the jects involve legitimate and complex
comeback is related to his dures that State presumably Difference, Power and Diversity Pro- issues.” PC has closed down thinking
message, and how much to the Sanders surge? had in place for a reason. gram that was due to get a one-sum- about these complex issues and has
continuing doubts about Mrs. The State Department’s in- mer defunding, which I agreed with made us all more foolish. It has made
Clinton’s honesty and thus her ability to find a record of in no uncertain terms. What followed us into people who exchange atti-
ability to win in November. transmittal counts for little, given that State was very similar to what we see tudes, not thoughts. It isn’t really
The former Secretary of State wants voters has proven incapable of tracking the private years later. It was the boiling out of that Mr. Trump “tells the truth.” He
the ground of J.R.R. Tolkien’s orcs. says what he thinks, and he is able to
to believe that her private email server scandal email accounts of employees, or even locating
My office door got a few nasty notes. do that in a world that lives off
is old news, but every month brings new evi- and producing documents requested in Free- I was pilloried for my words. The staged attitudes. Who would ever
dence that she put state secrets at risk in order dom of Information Act requests. Last week the nasty rhetoric hurt nothing like the have thought of Twitter as a tool for
to hide her emails from the public. The slow State Department Inspector General skewered silence of those who agreed with me. calling us back to thinking?
public release of new emails commanded by a the department for giving “inaccurate and in- What saved me from defrocking was I, too, would love to see someone
judge, combined with an expanding FBI probe, complete” answers to groups seeking Mrs. Clin- the editor of the local newspaper and with more depth on the political is-
may be making Democratic voters wonder if ton’s records. the editor of the Barometer. Yes, the sues that face us catch the anti-PC
they should nominate such an ethically chal- IG Steve Linick included the example of State school paper spoke up for my right to wave, but so far no one else has been
lenged nominee. in 2013 telling an outside group that it had no free speech. I resigned as president- able to.
The latest cache hit Friday when the State De- information about Mrs. Clinton’s use of private elect of the OSU Faculty Senate be- CHARLES SPINOSA
partment released 1,262 more of Mrs. Clinton’s email for public business, though “dozens of se- cause of the raw cowardice of so New York
many members of the faculty and ad-
emails. That dump contained another 66 emails nior officials throughout the Department” knew
ministration. Perhaps the time of liberation has
deemed classified, which means State has now about it. State has its own interest in hoping the My beliefs about serious discrimi- come for those of us who have re-
discovered some 1,340 instances of the nation’s email issue goes away. nation come from the fairness I sisted buckling under to the progres-
top diplomat handling sensitive material on an Meanwhile, Fox News reported Monday that found in the military and working for sive tyranny of political correctness.
unsecure server—including spy satellite infor- three intelligence sources say the FBI has ex- a timber company prior to academe. I This may be the moment when we
mation and the name of at least one confidential panded its email probe and is now looking at believe in merit. Never would I turn have restored the freedoms of speech,
CIA source. Given that we know Mrs. Clinton’s the “intersection” between Mrs. Clinton’s State down someone who could prove what thought and expression to ourselves.
server was the target of attempted hacks, this Department business and her Clinton Founda- they can “do.” But, alas, political cor- One of the great ironies of the past
is grossly negligent behavior. tion work. Mrs. Clinton told the Des Moines rectness has degraded our universi- quarter century has been that the
Mrs. Clinton’s assurance that none of these Register that “there is nothing like that that is ties, turning too many students into rebels of the 1960s and ’70s have
emails were classified “at the time,” and that happening” at the FBI, but the question is how whiners, ne’er-do-wells with 3.9 been the authors and enforcers of the
GPAs, and debt-ridden, jobless 25- oppression of what is deemed allow-
she always handled such material properly, also Mrs. Clinton would know. The FBI rarely alerts somethings. able communication in the public
looks to be undercut by one recently released subjects on the details of its probes. ROBIN ROSE square. Those who seek to repress
message. In a June 17, 2011 email thread, aide Voters may get more insight into this “inter- Corvallis, Ore. what is expressed by others are only
Jake Sullivan tells Mrs. Clinton that he can’t get section” this spring now that State has belat- exposing their own fears. Let the
her certain documents she wants because “They edly and begrudgingly agreed to process and I think Mr. Henninger gets Donald First Amendment flourish.
say they’ve had issues sending secure fax.” Mrs. release the personal emails of Mrs. Clinton’s top Trump supporters right, at least the RICHARD JACOBSON
Clinton appears to direct Mr. Sullivan to ignore aide, Huma Abedin, who appears to have been ones that I know—the non-working Wilmington, Del.
protocol and send the information by insecure the nexus between Mrs. Clinton’s official and
methods. “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper nonofficial duties.
[with] no identifying heading and send nonse- The Clintons are banking that most of the
cure,” she wrote. media will continue to ignore the email scandal. A Democrat Finds Common Cause With Cruz
The State Department says it can find no Democratic elites and their media allies have As a Democrat, I never thought I most kinds—except those benefiting
proof the information was sent. On CBS’s “Face invested their hopes for 2016 on Mrs. Clinton’s would say this, but I agree with Sen. Big Oil. But whatever his motiva-
the Nation” Sunday, Mrs. Clinton said she was electoral inevitability. Mr. Sanders’s latest poll- Ted Cruz—on ethanol. As “Cruz tions, on this issue at least, Ted Cruz
only requesting the transmittal of information ing boomlet is a message that many rank-and- Takes on Ethanol In Iowa—and Vice is right.
that was “unclassified.” You can believe this if file Democrats are having second thoughts. Versa” (page one, Jan. 7) points out, ROBERT M. SHRUM
Mr. Cruz could become the first can- Los Angeles
W
hen Nikki Haley offered the Republi- welcome in South Carolina”? Who signed a law It’s time to stop catering to the Iowa. The requirement to add this
ethanol lobby by endorsing a flawed corrosive contaminant to gasoline is
can response to President Obama’s fi- toughening the state’s illegal immigration re-
policy that science shows is worse the worst current example of govern-
nal State of the Union, the American form act, which requires employers to verify for our environment and climate than ment power being used to enrich the
people heard an articulate con- the immigration status of new gasoline. If Mr. Cruz prevails in the few (corn farmers and ethanol pro-
servative who has twice been She fails the new right hires? Who has fought Presi- Iowa Republican caucuses, the hand- ducers) at the expense of the many
elected Governor in South Car- litmus test against dent Obama’s bid to resettle writing will be on the election-night (everyone using gasoline-powered
olina. It’s a sign of the GOP’s unvetted Syrian refugees? And returns. Bad policy on ethanol isn’t engines), all justified by bogus envi-
distemper that some conserva- any immigration. whose state has joined 16 oth- good politics anymore, even in Iowa. ronmental benefits.
tives denounced her because ers in a lawsuit against Mr. I wish my fellow Democrats, climate- JAMES G. RUSSELL
she didn’t denounce legal im- Obama for what they say is his change champions, would come to Midlothian, Va.
migration. unconstitutional executive order on illegal im- the same realization.
Gov. Haley’s parents came to America from migration? When I was a senior adviser in the
India. Her father taught botany at Voorhees The distinction Gov. Haley is trying to make
Gore and Kerry campaigns, the etha- Censorship Is Not the Way
nol cause seemed like a win-win. We
College. Her mother started what would be- is between a functioning, legal immigration sys- believed it was good politics in Iowa
To Win Against Terrorism
come a multimillion-dollar clothing company tem that works in America’s interest—which and good policy, too. The science Regarding your editorial “Mus-
out of the living room of the family home. As Republicans say they want—and the unlawful, wasn’t there yet showing that etha- lims and the Police” (Jan. 9): As
she put it Tuesday, “I am the proud daughter broken and arbitrary system that encourages nol exacerbates the global warming it part of the settlement with plain-
of Indian immigrants who reminded my broth- illegality—which is what we now have and was supposed to reduce. In his 2009 tiffs suing over New York Police De-
ers, my sister and me every day how blessed we which President Obama exploits to the Demo- book on climate change, Al Gore partment spying, the department
were to live in this country.” crats’ political advantage. wrote that he made a rare mistake has agreed to remove from its web-
Her conservative critics unloaded. “Trump The attacks on Ms. Haley show that many on on environmental policy by endors- site a 2007 report titled “Radical-
should deport Nikki Haley” went one tweet. The the right these days oppose any immigrants, ing corn ethanol as he courted Iowa ization in the West: the Homegrown
voters. Mr. Cruz’s rationale is obvi- Threat.” Deleted it may be, but the
next morning on “Fox & Friends,” Donald even those who arrive legally. They also want
ously different. He instinctively op- report is readily accessible through
Trump declared that Gov. Haley is “very weak to make opposition to immigration a GOP litmus poses mandates and subsidies of a Google search, and here at John
on immigration.” test. A party that rejects Nikki Haley as a Jay College of Criminal Justice a
Are we talking about the same Nikki Haley? spokeswoman is one that doesn’t really want hard copy is on the shelves in Spe-
The woman who says “illegal immigration is not to build a governing majority. Congress Must Change Gun cial Collections. As a librarian, I am
appalled that censorship was a com-
Dealer Law, Not AG Lynch
GE Escapes Connectitax
ponent of the settlement. If the
To say that the president doesn’t plaintiffs had an argument with the
need lawmakers’ approval to reclas- content of that report, the remedy
H
ard to believe, but Connecticut was money from segregated funds. But another hole sify unlicensed vendors as gun deal- was to counter it in detail, not deny
once a low-tax haven in the Northeast. is looming. Over the next two years spending is ers is misleading (“Challenges Await access to the public.
Gun-Control Measures,” U.S. News, JEFFREY A. KROESSLER
Its business climate has grown so hos- set to rise by $1.5 billion, including $700 million Jan. 6). While the executive branch Lloyd Sealy Library
tile in recent years, however, in higher personnel costs. Pen- has discretion in implementing laws, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
that General Electric on The company flees sion payments are soaring. many legal scholars, including my- City University of New York
Wednesday announced that it the high-tax state Connecticut’s pension system self, believe that what the president New York
will move its headquarters to is 48% funded, third worst in is doing with his plan is far outside
Boston. When Taxachusetts that hates business. the country after Illinois and his authority. The law that Congress
becomes a reprieve, Governor Kentucky. enacted to regulate firearms dealers, Grappling With the Right
Dan Malloy ought to know Mr. Immelt says GE, which codified at 18 U.S.C. Section
921(a)(11), clearly states that a
African Colonial Conflict
Connecticut has a problem. has been headquartered in Fairfield since 1974,
GE CEO Jeff Immelt began entertaining re- selected Boston after considering 40 other loca- “dealer” is someone who is “en- Richard Holledge’s “Grappling
gaged in the business” of dealing With History” (Arts in Review, Jan.
location offers last summer after Connecticut’s tions and being pursued by New York, Rhode Is-
firearms, and the law enacted by 6) mentions the Boer War in the
legislature grabbed an additional $1.3 billion in land and Georgia. Mr. Immelt flogged Beantown’s Congress explicitly exempted from context of a painting with “1879” in
tax hikes, the fifth increase since 2011. A com- “diverse, technologically-fluent workforce” as regulation persons who make only its title and a reference to a primi-
pany statement noted that the “Connecticut well as a “package of incentives” valued at as “occasional sales.” tive-appearing enemy with masks,
economy continues to struggle as other states much as $145 million. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, feathers, etc. The author seems to
offer more opportunities and a better environ- It probably didn’t escape GE’s notice that in connection with the announce- be confusing the Boer War (1899 to
ment for business growth.” Massachusetts has the lowest taxes in the ment of the president’s actions, 1902) with the Anglo-Zulu War
The state’s $40.3 billion two-year budget Northeast outside of New Hampshire, which stated that the executive branch (1879). The Boer War didn’t have
boosted the top marginal tax rate on individuals doesn’t offer the urban cultural amenities that could consider persons who engage much in the way of feathers, etc.,
earning more than $500,000 to 6.99% from 6.7% are attractive to young techies and executives. in as few as one or two transactions but did feature modern-for-the-time
and 6.5% in 2010. Mr. Malloy also extended for The Tax Foundation ranks Massachusetts’s to be dealers. This isn’t a clarifica- Mauser rifles and taught the Em-
tion of existing law—it’s a rewriting pire, in Kipling’s words, “no end of a
the second time a 20% corporate surtax that his business tax climate 25th in the country, ahead
of the law that removes important lesson.” As an aside, the Zulu War
Republican predecessor Jodi Rell had imposed in of Georgia (39), Connecticut (44), Rhode Island exemptions and definitions that was no walkover either, and fea-
2009. To add liability to injury, he required cor- (45) and New York (49). were deliberately provided for by tured the last victory (Isandlwana)
porations to report their “unitary” business in- Massachusetts has worked to shake its high- Congress. of an indigenous army armed mostly
come from affiliates around the world and limited tax image by cutting its corporate rate to 8% MARC GREENDORFER with traditional weapons against a
deductions for carried-forward losses. from 9.5% and flat income tax to 5.15% from 5.3% Red Level, Ala. modern army equipped with fire-
The tax hikes have failed to cure Connecti- in 2008. In the same period, Connecticut has arms and artillery.
JACO VAN DER COLFF
cut’s chronic budget woes, which are symptoms raised its corporate rate to 9% from 7.5% and its CORRECTION Woodland Hills, Calif.
of a bloated government payroll and paltry eco- top income tax rate to 6.99% from 5%.
nomic growth. Since 2010 the Constitution Governors across America, including some
Amanda Botfeld, a writer and re-
State has recorded zero real GDP growth, the Democrats, are trying to make their states mec- Letters intended for publication should
searcher for the pro-Israel organiza- be addressed to: The Editor, 1211 Avenue
lowest in the nation save Louisiana (-0.7%) and cas for business, which means more jobs and tion StandWithUs, was the author of of the Americas, New York, NY 10036,
Maine (-0.6%). Connecticut is one of only four investment and more tax revenue. Governor the Jan. 13 op-ed “Facebook and Is- or emailed to wsj.ltrs@wsj.com. Please
states (Illinois, Vermont, West Virginia) whose Malloy is an exception because he is all but rael: What’s Not to ‘Like’? Lots, It include your city and state. All letters
populations have declined since 2012. owned by the public unions that dominate Con- Seems.” Ms. Botfeld did not inform are subject to editing, and unpublished
Last month the state legislature shellacked necticut politics. The last business to leave, us that Sheila Kugel was a pen name letters can be neither acknowledged nor
returned.
a $254 million mid-year budget gap by diverting please turn out the lights. until after the article was published.
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OPINION
W
cross-border pipelines that transport ment signed Nafta, it committed to
hen President Obama exactly the same type of oil that the provide Canadian investors with
T
prices jumped 30% in 2013 alone reach for yield that has led to mis- total capital market. The Fed has no the federal-funds rate more rapidly
he sharp fall in share prices and house prices rose 13% in that priced assets. Instead the FOMC ability, for example, to reduce risks this year and next.
last week was a reminder of year. The resulting rise in wealth stressed that the federal-funds rate in the shadow banking or insurance Fed officials also make the case
the vulnerabilities created by increased consumer spending, lead- will creep up very slowly and remain industries. that stimulating the economy by
years of unconventional monetary ing to higher GDP and lower unem- below its equilibrium value even The Dodd-Frank law imposed continued monetary ease is desir-
policy. While chaos in the Chinese ployment. after the economy has achieved full restrictions on bank portfolios and able as protection against a possi-
stock market may have been the But excessively low interest rates employment and the Fed’s target increased banks’ capital require- ble negative shock—such as a sharp
triggering event, it was inevitable have caused investors and lenders, rate of inflation. ments, which have created new fall in exports or in construction—
that the artificially high prices of in their reach for yield, to accept problems by reducing liquidity in that could push the economy into a
U.S. stocks would eventually decline. excessive risks in equities and fixed- financial markets. When bond inves- new recession. That strategy in-
Even after last week’s market fall, income securities, in commercial real The Federal Open Market tors and bond mutual funds look to volves unnecessary risks of finan-
the S&P 500 stock index remains estate, and in the overall quality of sell, there may be no ready buyers cial instability. There are alterna-
30% above its historical average. loans. There is no doubt that many Committee last month to prevent sharp falls in bond tive tax and spending policies that
There is no reason to think the assets are overpriced, and as the Fed didn’t even mention risk prices. The resulting rise in long- could provide a safer way to main-
correction is finished. normalizes interest rates these term interest rates could then tain aggregate demand if there is a
The overpriced share values are a prices will fall. It is difficult to know from persistent low rates. reduce equity prices as well. negative shock.
direct result of the Federal Reserve’s if this will cause widespread finan- Moreover, the Fed is planning a The Fed needs to recognize that
quantitative easing (QE) policy. cial and economic declines like those path for short-term interest rates its employment goals have essen-
Beginning in November 2008 and seen in 2008. But the persistence of Fed officials say that macropru- that is likely to raise the rate of tially been reached and that the
running through October 2014, the very low interest rates contributes dential policies should be used to inflation too rapidly in the next two inflation rate will reach its target of
Fed combined massive bond pur- to that systemic risk and to the pos- prevent financial instability. But years. The December FOMC minutes 2% in the foreseeable future. The
chases with a commitment to keep sibility of economic instability. there are few such policies in the show that members expect to have a economy would be better served by
short-term interest rates low as a Unfortunately, the recently re- U.S. beyond the increased capital negative real federal-funds interest a more rapid normalization of short-
way to hold down long-term interest leased minutes of December’s Federal requirements for the commercial rate until sometime in 2017, much term interest rates.
rates. Chairman Ben Bernanke ex- Open Market Committee meeting banks. Nothing has been done to too low for an economy already at
plained on several occasions that the made no mention of financial-indus- limit the loan-to-value ratios of res- full employment. The danger is that Mr. Feldstein, chairman of the
Fed’s actions were intended to drive try risks caused by persistent low idential mortgages or the leverage very low interest rates in this envi- Council of Economic Advisers under
up asset prices, thereby increasing interest rates for years to come. in commercial real-estate invest- ronment would lead to a higher rate President Ronald Reagan, is a pro-
household wealth and consumer There was also no suggestion that ments. Moreover, the commercial of inflation and higher long-term fessor at Harvard and a member of
spending. the Fed might raise interest rates banks supervised by the Fed repre- rates. The Fed could prevent that the Journal’s board of contributors.
D
nation and of veterans must be, and serious problems are rooted in its The overwhelming majority of VA tion as to why Messrs. McDonald and
uring his Senate confirmation will be, held accountable.” leaders’ routine and pervasive refusal employees are honest and hardwork- Obama refuse to stand with these
hearing in July 2014 to head Sixteen months have passed but to seriously discipline those who ing. But by repeatedly declining to groups in their quest to reform VA’s
the Department of Veterans the VA’s culture of indifference have engaged in proven incompe- take serious action against those en- broken culture.
Affairs, Robert McDonald pledged to persists, and the climate of account- tence, corruption and malfeasance. gaged in proven mismanagement and Congress also wants to give the
“transform” the vast agency. After ability Mr. McDonald promised is Consider: corruption, VA leaders are only fur- VA the authority it needs to recover
horrific reports of wait-time man- nowhere in sight. • After the biggest scandal in VA ther eroding the department’s credi- questionable bonuses (H.R. 280) and
ipulation, coverups and even deaths at “Veterans still facing major medical history, in which 110 VA medical bility with the veterans it serves. annuities on pensions of VA employ-
VA medical facilities across the coun- delays at VA hospitals,” read an Oct. facilities across the country main- ees convicted of felonies committed
try, veterans and the American people 20 CNN article; “VA execs demoted, tained secret lists to hide long waits on the job (H.R. 1994 and S. 290).
were calling for honest leadership to but get to keep their jobs and fraud for care, only three low-level VA A year and a half after The money these bills are intended
restore their trust in the department money,” reported a Nov. 23 Daily employees have been fired for wait- to recover could go toward filling the
created to serve them. Caller piece. “VA’s own internal time manipulation. Not one senior- vowing to ‘transform’ the nearly 41,000 open positions for
Transformation wouldn’t be easy, probe finds impunity of agency lead- level executive has been fired for the agency, the VA’s leadership doctors, nurses and other health care
Mr. McDonald said, but it was ers at scandal-ridden hospital,” said same violation. professionals at the VA, helping
• In September the VA’s Office of has shown little progress. improve the quality and timeliness of
Inspector General revealed that two care for veterans across the country.
VA senior executives inappropri- The VA has refused to support these
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY DOW JONES & COMPANY ately used their authority to game What’s more, the White House and bills, which enjoy strong bipartisan
the agency’s hiring system, allowing VA are actively opposing congressio- support.
Rupert Murdoch Robert Thomson
Executive Chairman, News Corp Chief Executive Officer, News Corp them to benefit from more than nal efforts to give Secretary Sixteen months into Secretary
Gerard Baker William Lewis $400,000 in taxpayer-funded relo- McDonald the tools and flexibility he McDonald’s tenure, the VA remains
Editor in Chief Chief Executive Officer and Publisher cation expenses. Instead of recover- needs to tackle the agency’s account- an agency under a specter of scan-
Rebecca Blumenstein; Matthew J. Murray, Deputy DOW JONES MANAGEMENT:
ing the money and firing the two ability crisis head-on. Mr. McDonald dal—a place where, all too often,
Editors in Chief; Almar Latour, Executive Editor Anna Sedgley, Chief Financial Officer; individuals, the VA is planning to refuses to support, and President employees who have demonstrated
DEPUTY MANAGING EDITORS: Ashley Huston, Chief Communications Officer; give them assistant-director jobs Obama has issued a veto threat on, incompetence or corruption are let
Paul Meller, Chief Technology Officer;
Michael W. Miller, Senior Deputy;
Mark Musgrave, Chief Human Resources Officer;
paying more than $100,000 and ig- the House-passed VA Accountability off with a free pass. Until VA leader-
Thorold Barker, Europe; Paul Beckett, Asia;
Christine Glancey, News Operations and Talent; Katie Vanneck-Smith, Chief Customer Officer noring calls from Congress and vet- Act (H.R. 1994). This legislation ship makes good on its promise to
Neal Lipschutz, Ethics and Standards; OPERATING EXECUTIVES: erans service organizations to re- would give the VA secretary the au- support real accountability, efforts to
Alex Martin, Enterprise; Ann Podd, Global Edwin A. Finn, Jr., Barron’s; Edward Roussel, coup the funds on behalf of thority to swiftly fire or demote any reform the department are doomed
Production; Andrew Regal, Global Head of Video; Innovation; Ingrid Verschuren, Data Strategy;
Jessica Yu, Global Head of Visuals
veterans and taxpayers. employee for poor performance or to fail, and the VA will never be
Suzi Watford, Marketing;
Paul A. Gigot, Editor of the Editorial Page; Professional Information Business, Sales: • In December the public learned misconduct while protecting whistle- transformed into an organization
Daniel Henninger, Deputy Editor, Editorial Page Nancy McNeill, Global; William Ashworth, of two internal VA investigations blowers and limiting the agency’s truly worthy of the veterans it is
Americas; Florence Lefevre, Europe; Tomasz that found whistleblowers at the ability to place misbehaving employ- charged with serving.
WALL STREET JOURNAL MANAGEMENT:
Rustowski, Asia
Trevor Fellows, Head of Global Sales; Phoenix VA Hospital were retaliated ees on paid leave.
Chris Collins, Advertising; Christina Komporlis,
Circulation; Jason P. Conti, Legal;
against by two senior managers for Nearly every major veterans ser- Mr. Moran, a Republican from
Joseph B. Vincent, Operations; Larry L. Hoffman, reporting dangers to patient care vice organization, including Veterans Kansas, is a member of the Senate
Production and financial mismanagement. More of Foreign Wars, the American Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Mr.
EDITORIAL AND CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS: than a year after investigators rec- Legion, Vietnam Veterans of America Miller, a Republican from Florida, is
1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y., 10036 ommended to Secretary McDonald and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of chairman of the House Committee on
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WORLD NEWS
In Venezuela, Opposition Cedes Legislative Edge Amid Economic Crisis
Three opposition lawmakers
gave up their seats in Venezu-
Beijing
ela’s National Assembly on
Wednesday, stripping President
Nicolás Maduro’s adversaries of
Trade
the supermajority they had
won in December’s legislative
elections and limiting the scope
of their intended overhauls.
Figures
The move, which comes as
the country battles an eco-
nomic crisis, was designed to
Doubted
resolve an acrimonious battle
in the legislature. The Supreme BY MARK MAGNIER
Court, which is packed with Mr. AND WEI GU
Maduro’s supporters, opened
an investigation into alleged BEIJING—China’s better-
vote-buying by the three law- than-expected trade figures
makers and ordered that they have sparked questions over
not be sworn in. The lawmak- whether trade flows have been
ers denied they had committed inflated by investors evading
wrongdoing. capital controls and incentives
JUAN BARRETO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
After India Attack were killed. —Saeed Shah Seven, the larger G-20 bloc and $1 million in the fourth quarter
Pakistan’s premier said his the United Nations to corral and $5 million for the year
country’s security forces had ar- SCIENCE funding for better public-health would receive an undisclosed
rested several members of a lo- systems in countries that lack bonus. Many government agen-
cal militant group blamed by In-
Panel Seeks Billions them, to strengthen the World cies don’t publish bonus details
dia for an attack that killed To Fight Pandemics Health Organization, and to ac- in case they run afoul of World
seven Indian security personnel A commission of global celerate the development of vac- Trade Organization rules gov-
on an air base in early January. health experts convened by the cines, drugs and interventions to erning subsidies, she added.
The leader of Pakistan-based U.S. National Academy of Medi- thwart epidemics. STRANDED: Five sperm whales 25-40 feet long, beached on a —Olivia Geng
Islamist group Jaish-e-Moham- cine called for $4.5 billion a year —Betsy McKay Dutch island in the Wadden Sea died early Wednesday. contributed to this article.
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Governor
Puts Forth
His Agenda
Cuomo pushes big convicted lawmakers and the
closing of a loophole that al-
infrastructure plans, lows limited-liability compa-
fixes for ethics woes nies to contribute enormous
sums to campaign accounts.
in emotional speech He also advanced a few new
efforts, primarily limiting
BY ERICA ORDEN state lawmakers’ outside in-
KEVIN HAGEN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Sweetener
New York City forgoes billions in tax dollars
to spur developers to build apartments.
FY 2016
$1.26 billion
A Titanosaur Moves to Manhattan
$1.2 billion BY ANDY BATTAGLIA
37°
colleagues from the Museo Pa- land animals that ever lived.” yond dinosaur experts.
Weather N.Y. Sports Lineup leontológico Egidio Feruglio in
...unless you got Titanosaurs are thought to The work to make that hap-
TODAY’S
Real Feel the city of Trelew suggested it stepped on by one.’ have been herbivores, feasting pen was described by Mr. Pol
9 a.m. 19° 7 p.m. might be a significant find. on plants. “They were proba- as a fruitful collaboration be-
HIGH Thursday
5 p.m. 29° “Sometimes there’s a piece bly not much of a threat if you tween scientists at the Trelew-
Rangers @ that doesn’t lead to anything,” The more than 200 fossils lived back then,” Mr. Phillips based museum and a team at
Record Low Islanders Mr. Pol said, “and sometimes exhumed from the site come added, “unless you got stepped the American Museum of Nat-
-5° (1914)
you are lucky and find a fan- from a species not previously on by one.” ural History, along with a Ca-
CLOUDS Sunrise/Sunset 9 p.m. tastic set of bones.” known, Mr. Pol said, and pro- Currently, the Argentine pa- nadian company, Research
& SUN 7:19 a.m./4:52 p.m. Thursday José Luis Carballido, an- vide clues about the existence leontologists are awaiting Casting International, revered
Devils @ other paleontologist on the ex- of a creature among the big- word about the publication of for its model-making.
Avalanche cavation team, said it took gest ever found. a scientific paper already sub- The skeleton’s “bones” took
Friday’s High
some time for the dinosaur to The dinosaur is so new, it mitted, the acceptance of their shape from plaster casts
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CITY NEWS
ALBANY—Several minutes
into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s
State of the State speech
Wednesday, a New York City
assemblyman stood up and
heckled him loudly and at
length over his economic and
poverty policies.
Once he left the room, As-
semblyman Charles Barron of
East New York said he wanted
to “vomit” after watching a
lengthy montage of people
thanking the Democratic gov-
ernor for activities across the
state. He said he had planned
a disruption to get media at-
tention because Mr. Cuomo
was a “hypocrite.”
“What’s happening in there
is not really the state of the
state,” said Mr. Barron, a Dem-
ocrat. He added that black
people and poor people were
being overlooked in places like
East New York.
The crowd seemed to side
with Mr. Cuomo during the ep-
isode, roaring as the gover-
nor’s voice rose to drown out
Mr. Barron’s. Mr. Cuomo asked
the assemblyman to sit down
and be quiet on several occa-
sions, which Mr. Barron re-
fused to do. The governor kept
his cool, trying to talk over
C RA F T I NG E T E R N I T Y
And he cited the “fine print,”
being careful to temper his re- 100,000 Heather Briccetti, president
and chief executive of the
bany works—is obviously for
you guys to analyze,” Mr. de
marks. Additional affordable-housing Business Council of New York Blasio said.
S I N C E 1 755 Mr. Cuomo also pushed to units that New York Gov. State, said she agreed with
require outside political con- Andrew Cuomo promised in his much of what Mr. Cuomo said
sultants who advise politicians State of the State address. on controlling spending. She We Want to Hear
to register as lobbyists, which said she had noticed a left- From You
could affect several of Mr. de were troubled by some of the ward turn on economic issues, Have something to say about
Blasio’s top advisers. governor’s leftward lurch on which she doesn’t like, and an article in Greater New
Ken Sherrill, a professor economic policy, while liberal didn’t understand the “psy- York? Email us, along with
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at CUNY-Hunter, said he didn’t Bill Lipton, the New York The mayor, who said last gnyltrs@wsj.com. Your letter
think Mr. Cuomo was directly state director for the liberal year the governor engaged in could be published in our
threatened by the more liberal Working Families Party, said political “vendettas,” de- weekly Feedback column on
Mr. de Blasio but understood the speech had pleasantly sur- murred Wednesday when Friday. Letters will be edited
the broader “shifting winds” prised him. “First de Blasio, asked by a reporter about the for brevity and clarity. Please
of the Democratic Party. and now Cuomo is really put- governor’s political motiva- include your city and state.
Business groups said they ting working families first,” he tions. “The governor’s specific
CITY NEWS
nances for the past year. the city’s operations, including in the year but lagged behind in
Legislation introduced in hiring, firing and spending. the fourth quarter, said Gregory
the Senate this week would The state’s latest proposal ap- Heym, an economist at Brown
expand the state’s control to pears aimed at taking over Harris Stevens.
municipal authorities and as- and possibly selling the Atlan- The median apartment price
sets and keep the city under tic City Municipal Utilities Au- in Brooklyn was $553,500 in the
state supervision for 15 years. thority, he said. fourth quarter, up from $500,000
“This takes away the major- The authority, which pro- in the last quarter of 2014. One-
ity of the powers from the lo- vides the city’s drinking water Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian in the rotunda of the New Jersey Statehouse on Tuesday. to four-family houses reached a
cal governing body,” said state and operates on a $15 million record $411 per square foot, and
Sen. Paul Sarlo, who is co- budget, is financially indepen- part of that effort, he said. not painful to our most vul- Atlantic City. the median house price was
sponsoring the bill with Sen- dent but run by board mem- The utility’s executive di- nerable residents,” he said. “The local government $759,000 in the latest quarter.
ate President Steve Sweeney, a bers who are appointed by the rector, G. Bruce Ward, said he Mr. Small said a state take- needs to clean up their house Aleksandra Scepanovic, man-
fellow Democrat, and Sen. council. There have been dis- opposes privatization because over is a slippery slope that and finances, and no one has aging director of Ideal Properties
Kevin O’Toole, a Republican. cussions over the past year it would dramatically increase would effectively negate the confidence in them right now,” Group, said that she expects
Atlantic City Mayor Don about leasing or privatizing water costs for residents, votes residents cast in last No- he said. prices in North Brooklyn and
Guardian said a further state the utility, which Mr. Sweeney many of whom live below the vember’s council election. On Tuesday, Assemblyman brownstone Brooklyn to continue
takeover is unnecessary be- said could sell for $100 mil- poverty line. “You’re disenfranchising Jon Bramnick, the chamber’s to grow in 2016 “although the
cause the city is cooperating lion. “We recognize of course the voters,” he said. “If this GOP leader, said the state is rate will likely not be as rapid as
with its current state supervi- Mr. Sarlo said Atlantic City that the city has financial happens in Atlantic City, it can better equipped than local of- we have seen.”
sors. Mr. Guardian, a Republi- needs to “begin to divest itself challenges and we will work happen in any town.” ficials to change the city’s con- In Queens, a report by Doug-
can, locked arms with Demo- from assets that could help with the city to find alterna- Mr. Sarlo said state law- tracts and negotiate with local las Elliman showed median home
cratic City Council members at the city.” The utility would be tives and solutions that are makers are tired of bailing out unions. prices rose 9.2% in the fourth
quarter, to $470,000 from
$430,475 a year earlier.
BY PERVAIZ SHALLWANI Prosecutors could instead in Brooklyn Criminal Court and father and woman were having School professor and former
decide to take a step back, re- held on $2,500 bail. He wasn’t sex when they came upon chief of the sex crimes unit in
Robbery Suspects
Brooklyn prosecutors were lease the teens and use the required to enter a plea. them in the playground. the Brooklyn prosecutor’s office, Caught After Chase
weighing whether to put a 180 days allowed by law to His attorney, Debbie Silber- Additionally, authorities exe- said such outside involvement Two bank-robbery suspects
closely watched gang rape build a case that could lead to man, said the case was getting cuted a search warrant for a was “totally inappropriate.” were arrested Wednesday fol-
case before a grand jury, as a an indictment, which is re- “weaker and weaker.” cellphone video that a defense “Police and prosecutors lowing a police chase and crash,
fifth teen was arraigned quired by law in felony cases. The case has proved com- attorney for one of the suspects should be operating with an authorities said.
Wednesday, officials said. “All aspects of this case are plex from the outset. The says shows the moments lead- eye only toward one thing, The incident prompted a lock-
The Brooklyn district attor- being investigated and we will woman and her father had been ing up to the alleged attack. getting to the truth,” she said. down of Syosset public schools.
ney’s office has until Friday to evaluate every piece of evi- drinking beer in the park when The case has also been un- “That happens only when you Police said the suspects robbed a
secure indictments or release dence,” said Oren Yaniv, they say the five teens, one car- der a microscope by politi- give them enough time to in- bank in Bay Shore shortly after 9
the four teens arraigned ear- spokesman for the Brooklyn rying a gun, chased the father cians and community activists, vestigate the case and develop a.m. and were captured about 20
lier on rape charges in the al- district attorney’s office. away and assaulted the woman. who say the New York Police a trusting relationship with miles away in Syosset after hit-
leged attack last week on an The last suspect arrested, 17- But according to authori- Department should have the victim and witnesses.” ting a police cruiser on Jericho
18-year-old woman at a play- year-old Travis Beckford, was ties, two of the suspects sepa- alerted the public sooner. —Thomas MacMillan Turnpike.
ground in the Brownsville area. arraigned Wednesday evening rately said that the 39-year-old Lisa Smith, a Brooklyn Law contributed to this article. —Associated Press
SPACES THURSDAY
Brooklyn ‘Annex’
To Bring Back
Manufacturing
NYCEDC
cades, is poised for its next Park director. and small-scale manufactur-
act. “It’s exciting to see we’re ing, Ms. Sun said.
The building’s nearly fulfilling that original design The 55,000-square-foot
building is painted pale yel- bridge, which has yet to be that may occupy two floors more within the next decade,
low with maroon window renovated, may eventually of the building. Ms. Sun said. Tenants use the
frames. The EDC sought to become communal space, Construction of the complex for garment and
create simple, customizable Ms. Sun said. Brooklyn Army Terminal be- high-tech manufacturing,
space, said Ms. Sun. The in- The EDC is now leasing gan in 1918, and was com- wholesale distribution and
terior white walls are un- space on the top two floors, pleted in September 1919. back-office operations,
adorned and sunlight for rents starting at about The complex is made from among other uses, she added.
streams through the large $20 a square foot. In Sunset reinforced concrete. Instead Gilbert’s great-grand-
windows, which were re- Park, rents for traditional in- of using a steel structure, daughter, Helen Post Curry,
cently replaced. dustrial spaces range from workers poured concrete in said the architect, who died
“[Cass Gilbert] had a real $15 to $20 a square foot, wooden molds at the termi- in 1934, would have ap-
interest in the play of light and for high-tech manufac- nal. The technique, which proved of using the build-
and shadow,” she added. turing firms from $22 to hadn’t previously been used ings for what to him would
A skybridge connects the $25, said Michael O’Brien, a for a project of the termi- seem like newfangled busi-
building to another building Brooklyn-based industrial nal’s scale or complexity, al- nesses.
in the complex. It was built broker. lowed for the entire complex “He was a real pragma-
so that workers could move Later this month, the EDC to be built quickly, Mr. tist,” said Mrs. Curry, who
goods between buildings said it will put out a pro- Gustafson said. now organizes tours of the
without disturbing the rail posal request to find an op- Today, the entire complex Woolworth Building’s lobby.
The Administration Building at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, now yard underneath, Mr. erator to manage an ad- is home to 3,700 jobs, and “I think he’d be very, very
called the Annex, has just undergone a $15 million renovation. Gustafson said. The sky- vanced manufacturing center the EDC hopes to add 1,000 pleased.”
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Giants to Promote McAdoo to Head Coach
The offensive coordinator McAdoo rejuvenated the offense dinator Steve Spagnuolo, who had
with a “West Coast offense” that had served as the Rams head coach from
will succeed Tom Coughlin quarterback Eli Manning, who at age 2009 to 2011, as well as former Bills
as the team’s co-owners 35 is just three years younger than head coach Doug Marrone and for-
the coach, throwing shorter, quicker mer Falcons head coach Mike Smith.
opt for continuity passes that neutralized the deficien- By selecting McAdoo, the co-own-
cies of the Giants’ injury-plagued of- ers are choosing continuity over the
BY STU WOO fensive line. Helping McAdoo has unknown. While the Giants went
been the emergence of Odell Beck- 6-10 in McAdoo’s first two seasons
In a move that will be popular ham Jr., who has had the most pro- with the team, that is largely the
with the Giants’ biggest stars, the lific two-year start of any NFL re- fault of the defense, which ranked
team was close to finalizing a deal to ceiver. 29th in the league in yards a game in
have offensive coordinator Ben Both Manning and Beckham have 2014 before dropping to last in 2015.
McAdoo succeed Tom Coughlin as said they liked McAdoo. “Great re- Fans have been upset with some
head coach, a person familiar with spect for coach McAdoo and the of McAdoo’s play-calling, especially
the matter said Wednesday night. whole offensive staff,” Manning said when he has opted to pass instead of
The promotion would cap a re- last week. “I think we’ve done good run with the Giants holding a late
markable ascension for the 38-year- things and I feel very comfortable. I fourth-quarter lead. His biggest
old McAdoo, who two years ago was think we work well.” Said Beckham blunder came in the 2015 season
a little-known quarterbacks coach last week: “He’s been great.” opener against Dallas, when he for-
with the Green Bay Packers before The big question during the got to remind Manning to take a
the Giants made him their offensive coaching search was whether Giants sack instead of throwing the ball
coordinator. co-owners John Mara and Steve away in the game’s final minutes,
In 2013, the year before McAdoo Tisch would feel comfortable hiring giving the Cowboys the time needed
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28th in the NFL in yards a game. The experience, let alone someone who The Philadelphia Eagles, the Gi-
offense improved to 10th in the didn’t hold a coordinator-level posi- ants’ NFC East rival, had also inter-
league in his first season and then to tion until two seasons ago. The team viewed McAdoo for their head-
eighth last season. had also interviewed defensive coor- coaching vacancy. Giants quarterback Eli Manning has said he has great respect for Ben McAdoo.
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GE Decamps to Boston
City beats back fierce broader effort by GE to cut cor- scribed as an inhospitable environment in which the most
porate costs and streamline op- business climate. promising talent want to work.
competition as the erations for what it portrays as The move, which is expected The company has been pre-
company moves its a new industrial era that will re- to begin this summer with some paring to pull up stakes for
CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
volve around software innova- workers occupying temporary months. It even has put the art
base from Connecticut tion as much as bended on the walls inside its Fairfield
$145M
metal—one that will make it a offices up for sale in an inter-
BY TED MANN priority to attract the talented nal auction for employees.
AND JON KAMP workers who prefer to live and The company said Wednes-
work in cities. Approximate value of incentives day it will sell the 68-acre
General Electric Co. will Several states, including offered to attract GE to Boston Fairfield campus as well as
relocate its headquarters from Georgia, Rhode Island and two floors of offices it had
Auto makers are profiting from big demand for trucks and SUVs.
leafy suburban Connecticut to
Boston’s busy waterfront, end-
ing a fierce competition
Texas, worked to attract GE.
New York pressed hard to
bring the headquarters to
800 kept for executives at Rocke-
feller Center in New York City.
The headquarters relocation
Number of employees likely to
Auto Executives
fered incentives worth up to though far from its largest completed by 2018. and another 600 workers even-
$145 million to the conglomer- employer. People familiar with the tually will be housed at the
ate. GE, which since 1974 has GE first publicly threatened company’s thinking also said GE new headquarters.
been based in Fairfield, Conn., its move in June, blaming a had outgrown its dated office GE hasn’t yet selected a
In Bullish Mood
promised to bring about 800 Connecticut budget deal that campus in suburban Fairfield— specific site, but said it plans
jobs to Boston. raised corporate taxes and a relic of a corporate era that to move to Boston’s fast-grow-
The move comes amid a what company officials de- no longer reflects the sort of Please see GE page B2
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Access Industries ....... B5
Franklin Resources......C2
Freddie Mac.................C8
Frontier Airlines ......... B7
Porsche Automobil
Holding......................B4
Prudential Financial
LONDON
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Al Jazeera America....B6 G
Q Century Fox, which until June
Allegiant Travel..........B7 GE Capital .............. C1,C8 2013 was part of the same
AllianceBernstein........C2 Qorvo...........................C8 company as The Wall Street
General Dynamics.......B3
Alphabet......................B4 Qualcomm ................... C8 Journal parent News Corp.
General Electric B1,B2,C2
Altec Lansing..............D1
General Motors...........C8 R For 20 years, the vacant Los
Amazon.com...............A2 Angeles market served as a
Goldman Sachs Group C4 R.J. O'Brien &
American Airlines Group Associates..............A10 negotiating weapon for the
H NFL. When team owners
.....................................B7 Robert Bosch .............. B4
American International Herring Broadcasting . B6 wanted to extract concessions
S from public officials and tax-
Group....................C1,C2 Hershey.....................A10
Anheuser-Busch InBev SABMiller....................C1 payers to build or renovate
NFL
Bank of America.........C8 Intel.............................C8 have deep roots being able to
TAG Group...................B6
Biogen ......................... B2
J
TDK..............................C8
Why St. Louis Didn't Measure Up point to LA as a realistic alter-
Boeing ......................... B7 native that in some ways more
J.P. Morgan Chase......C1 Toyota Motor..............B4
The Rams have been at or near the bottom of the rankings for NFL
Bombardier..................B6
attendance in recent years, and arguably a greater percentage of valuable than their present cir-
L T. Rowe Price..............C2 Continued from the prior page cumstances worked very well.”
C Angelenos tuned into the NFL this season.
Lindt & Spruengli.....A10 Tyson Foods................B2 $100 million if it pursues a He added he is certain the
Chipotle Mexican GrillB2 Average attendance for the top five teams in 2015...
Lowe's.........................A2 U new venue in San Diego. Talks “league is going to try to use
Cisco Systems.............B5 with San Diego officials have 1. Dallas Cowboys 91,459 London as a similar lever in
CIT Group .................... C8 M United Continental been ongoing. The Raiders future stadium negotiations.”
2. New York Giants 79,001
Holdings....................B2
Citigroup.................C1,C8 Mars..........................A10 would be able to move in with The NFL has long been in
United Talent Agency.B1 3. Green Bay Packers 78,413
Continental ResourcesC2 MetLife..............C1,C2,C8 the Rams if the Chargers de- every major U.S. market ex-
U.S. Bancorp................C1 cide not to and can receive 4. New York Jets 78,160 cept Los Angeles. Now that it
CSX..............................B6 MFS Investment
Management.............C2 V $100 million from the NFL for 5. Denver Broncos 76,922 is there, London, with a popu-
D
Mondelez International
a new stadium in Northern lation of 8.4 million and not
Darrell High .............. A10 Vanguard Group..........C2 ...and the bottom five teams
California—the preferred loca- much farther from New York
.....................................A1 Verizon Communications 28. Cincinnati Bengals 61,389
Delphi Automotive ..... B4 tion for owner Mark Davis, than Seattle is from Miami, is
F N ............................... A2,C1 presuming he can reach a fa- 29. Detroit Lions 61,347 the now the largest and best
National Football
Vivendi ........................ B5 vorable deal there. 54,613 available option.
Facebook......................B5 30. Oakland Raiders
League.......................B1 Volkswagen.................B4 Public funding of pro sports Nevertheless, many hurdles
Fannie Mae..................C8 arenas and stadiums has long 31. Minnesota Vikings 52,430 remain. The first is whether
Nestlé........................A10 Volvo Car.....................B4
Fiat Chrysler been a fixture of American 32. St. Louis Rams 52,402 the NFL players union will ap-
Automobiles........B1,B4 P W
politics as local elected offi- prove the notion of having
Fidelity Investments .. C2 Pershing Square Capital Walt Disney................B1 cials, fearing the wrath of vot- members in another country.
Ford Motor..................A2 Management.............C8 Wells Fargo.................C1 ers, often go to great lengths Average TV audience for St. Louis Los Angeles There are the tax and immi-
Sunday Night Football
to avoid losing a hometown
in 2015
212,400 1,014,750 gration issues created by hav-
thirst for the kind of educated, technology workers, as well as center along the Hudson River. took a turn in 2011 during a
technologically-savvy workers the GE Digital Foundry, an in- The rest of its operations are fight in Washington about a GE
who are clustering in cities cubator for “product develop- sprawled across the globe. product that it wouldn’t even
such as Chicago, San Fran- ment with customers, startups Its jet-engine business is manufacture in the state: a pro-
cisco, and Seattle. and partners,” the company based in Ohio and its oil and posed alternate engine for the
Suburban office parks are said. gas operation is based in Lon- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The
falling out of favor as compa- Boston boasts several don. The company is moving primary contractor for the exist-
nies recognize their locations world-class universities, which its health-care division to Chi- ing engine was Pratt & Whitney,
affect their ability to compete could deliver GE a ready sup- cago from London. General Electric has had its headquarters in Fairfield, Conn., since 1974. a division of Hartford-based
for skilled workers, said Pat- ply of the employees to assist The relatively small number United Technologies Corp.
rick Phillips, global chief exec- in its transition from an indus- of jobs at stake didn’t dimin- centives New York offered was include up to $25 million in city Gov. Dannel Malloy was
trial-era firm to one that can ish the attraction to state and larger than the $145 million property tax breaks and as much among the politicians who at-
compete in a knowledge econ- city officials who hoped to offered by Massachusetts, ac- as $120 million in state spending tended a rally at Pratt after
Employers want the omy, Mr. Phillips said. score a major corporate scalp. cording to people familiar on infrastructure, such as new the state delegation helped
kind of educated, “Boston has been overshad- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with the discussions. New roads and parking facilities. block GE’s effort to get a green
owed by Silicon Valley for the made an aggressive effort to York officials were still trying Meanwhile, officials in Con- light to develop the alternative
tech-savvy workers last several years” as an incu- woo GE, offering state-owned to seal a deal with GE in re- necticut struggled to convince engine. In a news conference
who gravitate to cities. bator of high-tech innovation, property for a corporate head- cent days, according to people GE to stay. They offered to Wednesday, Mr. Malloy said
he said. But it is still “a really quarters in New York City, as familiar with the matter, but purchase the $84 million Fair- the anger over that rally “has
key asset in the knowledge well as a research facility in the state’s pitch faced other field campus and relocate the clouded our relationship with
utive of the Urban Land Insti- economy.” Utica, N.Y., people familiar hurdles, including higher per- company to Stamford, where GE for the last five years.”
tute, a land-use think tank. What makes an area like with the matter said. sonal income-tax rates. it would have had direct ac- —Erica Orden
“GE is such a high-profile ex- Boston attractive to the kind The total value of the in- The Massachusetts incentives cess to mass transit, interstate contributed to this article.
ample that it will underscore of workers GE wants is the
this trend.” number of opportunities, or
In Chicago, United Conti-
nental Holdings Inc. and
Hillshire Brands, now owned
what the economist Enrico
Moretti calls the “thickness”
of the labor market.
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realities of the labor market off, Mr. Moretti said. That acts have reported getting sick with determined, “we’re more cau-
may have made such a change as a form of insurance in an E. coli since late November, tious about closing it. It’s a
inevitable, especially given economy that guarantees and that they think the Cen- conversation we’ll have over
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March to discuss the plans, White House budget submis- nft didn’t provide details. He Some industry analysts said
though it has yet to detail how sions cut development funding said a request for proposals to it would be cheaper to find an
it would pay for the vessels. and pushed back the planned build the ships was expected overseas partner, such as Fin-
The U.S. has just two work- purchase. within two years. land or Canada.
ing icebreakers, with a third However, President Barack The service, which has an “U.S. expertise in icebreak-
out of commission for the past Obama last September revived annual budget of $10 billion, is ing technology has atrophied,”
five years because of engine the project when he called for already in the midst of a big said Heather Conley, in a re-
problems. Adm. Zukunft said the U.S. to have at least one modernization drive, including port for the Center for Strate-
Russia had 42 and was build- new heavy icebreaker by plans to buy 25 new offshore gic & International Studies, a
ing an additional 14. 2020. patrol cutters. think tank that hosted
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All Eyes on Detroit: Car Makers Show Off Sleek Headlight Designs
Volvo Car Corp. has made a Toyota Motor Corp. sig- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles The Dune version of Volks- Porsche AG brought a famil- The VLF Force 1 V10—a col-
push to get back to simple, naled its new design direction NV’s Dodge Challenger comes wagen AG’s Beetle retains the iar German face to America’s laboration between ex-GM exec-
Scandinavian design and the with the narrow and futuristic with one of the meatiest en- headlights of an iconic mass- premier auto show with the lat- utive Bob Lutz and designer
minimalist S90 head lamp un- lamp of the new Lexus LC500 gines on the road, and distinc- market auto design still on est version of its classic 911 Henrik Fisker—features ultrathin
derscores that goal. shown in Motown. tive round head lamps. sale in the 21st century. Turbo. lights and a carbon fiber body.
—John D. Stoll
tection Agency offices in Volkswagen and U.S. environ- der false pretenses.
Washington, D.C. In nearly ment officials appear stuck “We want to make this
identical statements, Volks- over complex technical issues. right in the American way,”
wagen Chief Executive Mat- Europe’s largest auto maker Mr. Horn said. “We’ll do every-
thias Müller and Gina McCar- has been unable to sell its two- thing in our power to make it
thy, head of the EPA, thanked and three-liter diesel-powered right.”
the other for taking time to vehicles in the U.S. because of The California environmen-
meet, and pledged to keep Matthias Müller hoped to break a logjam through a personal encounter with the EPA’s Gina McCarthy. the violations and lack of cer- tal regulators rejected the plan
talking. tification for new models. for fixing tainted vehicles, say-
The face-to-face meeting, vague and inadequate. The Blue Book, adding she wasn’t emissions tests. The company In Detroit this week Volks- ing the proposals didn’t in-
which was requested by Volks- EPA said it agreed with Cali- surprised there was no resolu- admitted that it had installed wagen executives repeatedly clude enough information to
wagen, came a day after Cali- fornia’s assessment. tion reached because of the software on some diesel-pow- apologized for deceiving regu- allow them to fully evaluate
fornia regulators rejected the “Every day there is not a complexity of the issues. ered vehicles that could dupe lators and consumers. They the proposed solution. They
car maker’s plan to fix nearly resolution is a bad day for In September, U.S. regula- emissions tests by running appeared confident that they said it was unclear how the so-
500,000 diesel-powered vehi- Volkswagen,” said Rebecca tors revealed Volkswagen die- more cleanly in the lab than were close to a deal on a re- lution would impact the per-
cles that were rigged to cheat Lindland, senior analyst at au- sel-powered cars had been on the street. call, and stressed their deter- formance, safety and emis-
on emissions tests, calling it tomotive research firm Kelley rigged for years to cheat on Technical negotiations on a mination to resolve the issue. sions of the vehicles.
2015 estimate
80.0M 2014
2014 13.2M
11.8M
2014
28.8M
2013
8.0M
Linux 0.9%
0.7%
20
15
10
Clip-on: 4.7%
5 Clothing: 1.9%
Other: 0.3%
0
Eyewear: 0.8%
18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+ Total
Sources: Apple (photo); eMarketer (users by gender, age group);
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$100 Billion in Bids for $46 Billion in Bonds important” in the eyes of reg-
ulators may outweigh the ben-
efits of continuing to operate
BY MIKE CHERNEY at its current size. General
Electric Co. made the same
Investors snapped up $46 bil- choice in April for its giant fi-
lion in bonds from Anheuser- nance arm, GE Capital.
Busch InBev NV on Wednesday, The moves show that while
the second-largest corporate- the U.S. government hasn’t
bond sale on record and a sign heeded populist calls to “break
that demand for high-quality up” the nation’s largest finan-
corporate debt remains strong. cial firms, those demands are
Orders totaling more than at times being answered
$100 billion were placed for the through indirect pressure from
bonds. The company had regulators.
planned to sell about $30 billion
$641 billion
worth but was able to boost the
deal even as stocks tumbled.
FRANCOIS LENOIR/AKOS STILLER/BLOOMBERG NEWSREUTERS
Shares of many have been 80 And despite the Federal than banks that are above that
hammered in recent weeks. Reserve rate increase late in level, according to an analysis
The KBW Nasdaq Bank index the fourth quarter, low long- by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
is off by nearly 75 term bond yields threaten to The shares of those midsize
AHEAD OF 20% since its keep net-interest margins banks accordingly trade at a
THE TAPE most recent flat at best. higher valuation than lenders
peak of the 70 Debt underwriting also is with $50 billion or more in as-
past likely to look weaker thanks sets, according to the analysis.
year. Shares of all 10 of the in part to a strong quarter “It’s like saying if you have
biggest U.S. banks have in the prior-year period. a super fast race car…we’ll
65
fallen by more than 5% in And trading revenue could make sure you only go 70
January alone. 2015 ’16 be hampered by volatility of miles per hour,” says Art Wil-
Harold Hamm says oil glut will ease substantially in months ahead. This may have left some Source: WSJ Market Data Group the sort that caused inves- marth, a law professor at
investors with a sense of tors to sit on their hands. George Washington University
OIL
Continued from the prior page
MetLife Move Puts Heat on Rivals
change. Analysts say AIG and Late Tuesday afternoon, MetLife an opening to create a AIG has been under pres- best interest of shareholders.
Mr. Hamm, chief executive MetLife announced it repository for lower-return, sure to split up since last fall, As for Prudential, Deutsche
of top U.S. shale-oil producer Prudential face similar was seeking to divest a large capital-intensive businesses. when billionaire investors Carl Bank AG analyst Yaron Kinar
Continental Resources Inc., pressure to shrink to piece of its U.S. life-insurance MetLife Chief Executive Icahn and John Paulson pro- told clients that MetLife’s plan
believes that the current glut unit as part of an effort to Steven Kandarian wasn’t avail- posed breaking the global in- raises the question of whether
will ease substantially this year cut capital burden ease some of the capital bur- able for comment Wednesday, surance conglomerate into the Newark, N.J., company
as U.S. shale companies ratchet den it is expected to face un- but on Tuesday he said that three separate companies as a “would need to consider sepa-
down production until the mar- BY LESLIE SCISM der new federal regulations the company concluded “an in- way to become small enough ration plans of its own in or-
ket recovers. U.S. output has AND JOANN S. LUBLIN that categorize it as a systemi- dependent new company to escape the SIFI tag. General der to remain competitive
been falling recently but not as cally important financial insti- would be able to compete Electric last year said that it with MetLife, if its plan suc-
rapidly or by as much as many MetLife Inc.’s move to shed tution, or SIFI. On Wednesday, more effectively and generate would get out of the banking ceeds.”
investors anticipated. a chunk of its U.S. life-insur- shares rose 92 cents, or 2.2%, stronger returns for share- business. “These actions portend a
He said that will end soon. ance business elevates pres- to $42.91, on a day that saw holders…[and] this risk of in- Analyst Meyer Shields at greater trend in the industry
“We’re heading toward a sure on rivals to similarly slim the Dow Jones Industrial Aver- creased capital requirements Keefe, Bruyette & Woods told and likely will put pressure on
short supply situation unfortu- down, analysts said. age sink 365 points. contributed to our decision to clients Tuesday night that a AIG, Prudential and a handful
nately,” he said in an interview The result could be a MetLife has more than reg- pursue the separation of the favorable market reaction to of other insurers, forcing them
on Wednesday. “That’s going to broader shake-up of the insur- ulatory reasons to separate business.” MetLife’s plans would pressure to reassess their business
get very concerning in the lat- ance industry’s biggest compa- the historic core of the com- MetLife, AIG, Prudential AIG Chief Executive Pe- mixes,” said Cathy Seifert, an
ter part of the year.” nies, including American In- pany. Many of the businesses and a unit of General Electric ter Hancock “to unveil some- equity analyst with S&P Capi-
With oil prices currently ternational Group Inc. and that MetLife aims to move Co. were the four nonbank fi- thing similarly dramatic” at a tal IQ.
covering only half the cost of Prudential Financial Inc., as into the new entity—sales of nancial firms designated as strategic update scheduled by A spokesman for Prudential
industry operations, Mr. Hamm they contend with increasing life insurance to U.S. house- systemically important under AIG for Jan. 26. said that while the insurer is
said U.S. producers are cutting regulatory pressures. MetLife’s holds as well as retirement-in- the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial- AIG declined to comment, “continuously evaluating op-
output at a rate of 1.6 million action comes as AIG is under come annuities with lifetime regulatory overhaul law. The saying it would discuss its portunities for enhancing
barrels a year. That could fire from big investors to income guarantees—are pres- firms eventually will be ex- plans for streamlining opera- shareholder value,” it believes
quickly take the U.S. back to boost its sagging profits. sured by ultralow interest pected to have ample money tions, narrowing its focus and asset sales and other moves
levels three years ago. Though “The heat just went up” on rates and other economic fac- on hand as a capital cushion to returning more capital to over the years have left it with
companies can continue to AIG and Prudential, said David tors, some analysts said. As a address unexpectedly large shareholders this month. AIG “opportunities to drive returns
pump at this price, they can’t Havens, a credit analyst with result, heightened regulatory losses and avoid harming the has been adamant that a that have trended above our
afford to drill new wells, ramp- Imperial Capital LLC. oversight in some ways gave broader economy in a collapse. three-way breakup isn’t in the peer group.”
ing down future supplies, he
said.
Once supply deficits begin,
they can’t reverse quickly. It
could take one to two years to
bring output back on line, Mr.
ERA Size Matters
A look at the assets
Nonbank assets
GE
Peak
Prudential
Change from 2010
Arabia to defend their market overseas, such as British pounds ment-grade credit at Columbia
share by pumping at elevated or euros, to help pay the rest of Threadneedle Investments, add-
rates despite the growing SABMiller’s price tag. ing that market participants
global glut. Massive bond offerings have would be less focused on a
He portrayed that effort as a become increasingly common in smaller sale.
direct attack on the U.S. oil in- recent years, as ultralow interest —Ben Eisen
dustry but said its member AB InBev could seek to sell more bonds overseas to help pay the rest of SABMiller’s price tag. rates reduced borrowing costs contributed to this article.
countries now are suffering for
the results more than the U.S.
itself.
“We have to support a com-
pany,” Mr. Hamm said. “They
have to support a country.”
FUNDS and will benefit from a rising-
interest-rate environment. A
new online ad from Boston-
based Fidelity Investments
Humans vs. Clones
Actively and passively managed
funds have traded performance
their benchmarks last year, at
46.7%, up from 26.9% in 2014.
“The market was very
choppy last year and the main
while the average passive fund
was down 2.3%. The S&P 500
fell 0.7% for the year.
Outflows from all actively
OPEC’s move also played Continued from the prior page says that “active management victories in recent years. way to outperform was to buy managed funds accelerated
into the U.S. oil industry’s ef- The moves have boosted works around the globe.” good companies when they fell during the second half of the
fort to lift the four-decade ban companies such as indexing pi- Rising interest rates will 40% Annual total return out of favor,” said Joshua year as markets turned more
on American oil exports, he oneer Vanguard Group, while likely make it easier for other Spencer, manager of the T. volatile following a stock slide
said. Mr. Hamm was one of the hurting firms that have long active managers to beat their Rowe Price Global Technology in China and a decline in the
most outspoken industry advo- been synonymous with their benchmarks in the coming 20 Fund, the top-performing value of U.S. junk bonds. In De-
cates in favor of lifting the ban, star stock pickers. Vanguard years, said Brian Hogan, presi- stock fund in 2015. The fund cember, investors took a net
which U.S. producers wanted last year attracted an industry dent of Fidelity’s equity divi- returned 21.1% during the year, $14.5 billion out of actively
badly so they could fetch record inflow of $236 billion. sion, which manages about 0 according to Morningstar. managed U.S. stock funds, add-
higher prices in global markets The $413.8 billion collected $800 billion in assets. The advantage for active ing to the $19.8 billion inves-
for their oil. by all index funds in 2015 was “We have been a good –2.2% managers over passive rivals tors yanked out of such funds
“We couldn’t have gotten the second-highest haul ever, house in a bad neighborhood Actively came from funds focusing on in November.
–20 managed –2.7%
the export ban lifted without after 2014. over the last five years. My international stocks and those Some of the money pulled
them doing what they did to us Several money managers sense is that the neighborhood Passively using hedge-fund-like strate- out of these mutual funds
managed
last year,” Mr. Hamm said. that derive the majority of is turning,” Mr. Hogan said. gies, according to the data. likely found its way back into
–40
While exports are still in their revenue from actively The average Fidelity equity But in more-standard stock stocks through exchange-
their nascent stage and are managed funds, including Alli- fund outperformed its bench- 2008 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 and bond funds, passive man- traded funds or other passive
starting with Europe, U.S. oil anceBernstein LP, MFS In- mark by 1.78 percentage points Source: Morningstar agers did better. stock funds. Traders and
executives believe that future vestment Management and net of fees in 2015, according THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. The average actively man- money managers also say
sales could go as far as Latin Franklin Resources Inc., are to a spokeswoman, making last aged taxable-bond fund lost some went to bonds and some
America and even Asia. striking back by publishing re- year the best for stock-fund tively managed open-end 1.8%, while the average passive remains in cash.
He added that with U.S. ex- ports on the benefits of hand- performance at the firm since funds tracked by Morningstar fund lost 0.2%. The Barclays But the withdrawals have
ports poised to gain global picking stocks and bonds. 2009. across all categories lost 2.2% U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, exacerbated the sharp declines
market share, he viewed OPEC They argue that active fund The better performance by on average during 2015, less which tracks the performance in the stock market in 2016,
as “almost a nonentity” that is managers outperform passive active managers in 2015 came than the 2.7% loss recorded by of broad swaths of investment- traders say. Even if money
losing its ability to dictate funds over longer periods, will as volatility and a stock-mar- passively managed funds. A grade bonds, returned 0.55%. managers were inclined to buy
market prices as it has for be able to stand out as more ket downturn provided more larger percentage of actively The average actively man- dips in the broader indexes,
many decades. money flows into index funds chances to cushion losses. Ac- managed stock funds also beat aged stock fund lost 2.9%, they have less money to do so.
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GLOBAL FINANCE
In China, the Visible Hand
BY SHEN HONG through government-affiliated that in July, the bourse sent a Regulatory Commission
Market Whispering
When Chinese stocks plummet, regulators step up a behind-the-
scenes campaign to get companies, fund managers and brokers to
support the market.
July 4 July 8 Jan. 7
funds. letter demanding the company couldn’t be reached for com- 5500 June 30, 2015 July 9 Jan. 4-13, 2016
As Chinese markets sank The hand of the regulators release a statement saying its ment.
last week, corporate China ap- was most apparent last sum- controlling shareholders Market watchers say it isn’t Shanghai Composite
5000
peared to be rallying to their mer, when a 43% plunge in the wouldn’t unload stock. Last clear how effective such inter-
support. Shanghai Composite Index over week, the exchange was more vention is. Stocks slid last year 4500
At least 75 Chinese compa- slightly more than two months low-key, he said, calling to urge despite a similar chorus of
nies issued statements during was accompanied by dozens of the company to release another prominent Chinese companies, 4000
the past week and a half, say- declarations by brokerage statement to set an example brokers and funds swearing off
ing their biggest shareholders firms and fund managers ab- for other firms. stock sales. 3500
would be holding on to their juring stock sales, as well as The flurry of companies de- In recent days, exchange of-
stakes to protect investors’ in- huge purchases of shares in claring their support for the ficials have sought statements 3000
terests. market in recent days shows of market support from smaller
Officially, the companies Chinese regulators haven’t listed companies rather than 2500
were acting spontaneously. But
Companies were given up on behind-the-scenes big state-run firms, because it 2015 ’16
privately, people close to Chi- urged by exchange efforts to guide the direction of would look more spontaneous JUNE 30, 2015 JULY 8
nese regulators as well as some stocks. from them, a person familiar u 13 leading Chinese private-equity u 111 state-owned enterprises
of the companies themselves
officials not to sell “We issued the statement with regulators’ deliberations fund managers issue statements pledge not to reduce shareholdings.
said they were prompted to is- shares amid a rout. because the [Shenzhen] ex- said. vowing to stay bullish.
JULY 9
sue the statements by ex- change encouraged listed firms Over the past few months, JULY 4 u The regulatory commission bans
change officials, who had called to maintain shareholdings,” the national team has shifted u 28 companies “voluntarily” major shareholders, those with stakes
and asked them for expressions bellwether Chinese stocks by a said an executive at LED-device investments away from blue suspend IPOs. The China Securities of 5% or more, from selling shares for
of support. In many cases, the shadowy group of firms known maker Shenzhen Jufei Opto- chips and into a wider variety Regulatory Commission suspends IPO six months.
issuance.
statements contained similar as the “national team.” electronics Co. “You can think of stocks, including small JAN. 4-13, 2016
or nearly identical language. Brokers, company executives of this as a concerted effort by listed firms, said another per- u 21 big brokerages set up a 120 u At least 75 companies promise
The behind-the-scenes activ- and people close to Chinese listed firms to voluntarily sta- son familiar with policy mak- billion-plus yuan fund to purchase that major shareholders won't reduce
stock. They promise not to sell shares stakes.
ity reflects the secretive, unof- regulators say tactics have be- bilize the market.” ers’ deliberations.
in proprietary trading when
ficial side to Chinese regula- come more subtle during the The executive later back- CSFC also has stopped mak- Shanghai's benchmark is below JAN. 7
tors’ attempts to bolster the recent market downturn. The tracked and said the statement ing purchases through ac- 4,500. u The regulatory commission issues
country’s sagging stock mar- national team hasn’t been mak- didn’t come at the behest of counts in its name at big Chi- new rules restricting share sales by
u 25 fund managers pledge to major shareholders.
kets. The regulators’ varied ar- ing the high-profile buys of six regulators. Privately, a number nese brokerages and switched
subscribe to more equity funds and
senal includes tactics such as months ago, and regulators of firms that issued similar to investing through small, hold for at least one year.
Sources: China Securities Regulatory
Commission, Securities Association of China
phone calls from exchange offi- have been less overt in their re- statements said they had done scattered mutual funds—moves and the State-Owned Assets Supervision &
cials to big holders of shares, quests for cooperation. so at the urging of Shenzhen that make its buys harder to u The controlling shareholders of 28 Administration Commission and Asset
companies on the startup-heavy Management Association of China (timeline);
urging them not to sell, as well An executive at one environ- exchange officials. detect, the person said. ChiNext board promise not to sell Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges;
as pumping hundreds of bil- mental-technology firm listed Officials at the Shenzhen ex- —Yifan Xie shares. WSJ Market Data Group
lions of yuan into the markets on the Shenzhen exchange said change and the China Securities contributed to this article. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
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IN THE MARKETS
Pound Falls on Global Gloom Goldman
BY TOMMY STUBBINGTON
Plans Job Cuts
In Fixed-Income Area cember meeting—at which it
Weak Start raised interest rates for the BY JUSTIN BAER 60%, and you need to con-
The British pound tumbled The pound has slumped against the dollar this year. first time in nearly a decade— stantly adjust.”
to a more than 5½-year low How many dollars £1 buys* show U.S. officials worried Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Morgan Stanley, one of
this week, as concerns about about weak growth overseas. is planning to cut up to 10% of Goldman’s closest rivals,
China help push back expecta- $1.70 But U.K. central bankers ap- its fixed-income traders and moved to shed 1,200 people,
tions of a long-anticipated in- pear to be particularly sensi- salespeople later this quarter, including some 25% of its
terest-rate increase in the U.K. tive to a slowdown in China a steeper-than-usual pruning fixed-income traders and
When the U.S. Federal Re- 1.60 and to the commodity bust. of the firm’s least-productive salespeople, last month. And
serve raised interest rates last The BOE in November signaled employees, according to peo- some of the biggest European
month, the that gloomier prospects for ple familiar with the matter. banks have appointed new
CURRENCIES Bank of Eng- 1.50 the world economy had made Goldman annually sheds chief executives who are
land was ex- the need for higher interest about 5% of its total workforce widely expected to retreat
pected to be rates less urgent, backing in March, often to make room from the debt markets.
the first central bank in a ma- 1.40 away from Mr. Carney’s hints for new hires. This year, Debt traders faced a diffi-
jor economy to follow, and earlier last year that a rate though, the New York firm is cult second half of 2015, with
’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16
soon. Then came China-linked rise was getting closer. preparing to make deeper cuts concerns over economic
market turmoil. Now, the Source: WSJ Market Data Group THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Weak U.K. industrial output within its debt, currencies and growth, commodity prices and
BOE’s return to raising rates data on Wednesday com- commodities division, a busi- public policy leaving many in-
may be on hold, as it, and of currency at London-based tral banks contemplating lift- pounded worries that the Brit- ness whose prospects have vestors less willing to take
other central banks, assess the asset manager Insight Invest- ing rates has left sterling vul- ish economy, the world’s fifth dimmed with the onset of new risks.
effects of lower growth in the ment. “That hasn’t happened nerable. The currency had biggest, is at risk. regulations on bank risk tak- “These issues,” Barclays
world’s No. 2 economy. at all.” rallied on expectations of Further casting a shadow ing and capital, the people PLC bank analysts
Expectations of rising inter- Derivative contracts linked higher rates, which attract in- over the currency, is an EU said. wrote Wednesday in a re-
est rates boost currencies as to future interest rates indi- vestors seeking higher yields. referendum that could come The cuts will affect no more search note, “appear to be
money flows in looking for cate investors aren’t now ex- The prospect of further Fed as soon as this year, and could than 250 people, the people continuing into” 2016.
higher returns. That happened pecting a rate increase until rate rises continues to make result in the U.K. leaving the said. “I’m going to rely on Gold-
to the pound, leaving it vul- May 2017, according to UBS. the dollar attractive. Curren- trading bloc. While most ana- Many of the world’s largest man management to know the
nerable to disappointment. At the end of 2015, that expec- cies such as the euro and the lysts believe the British will banks have shrunk their fixed- difference between fat, and
Sterling slumped to tation was for October of this yen tend to rise in times of vote to stay in Europe, few are income trading businesses, muscle and bone,” Mr. Schorr
$1.4352 on Tuesday in London year. market stress, mainly as inves- discounting the chance and all both in head count and in the added. “It’s a very difficult
trading, the lowest since May The pound’s poor start to tors bring home money that warn of a protracted period of bonds and other securities balancing act.”
19, 2010. 2016 is also due to specific do- was borrowed in these curren- uncertainty. they keep on their books, to Even Goldman, one of the
Since the middle of last mestic factors, including dis- cies to invest in other regions. In other currency trading help lift returns weighed down few big banks to tout its con-
month, the pound has been appointing economic data and That makes the pound one Wednesday, the dollar fell 0.2% by the extra capital they are tinued commitment to the
the worst performer among worries that a coming referen- of the few obvious major cur- against the euro to $1.0877. It now required to hold. debt markets, has trimmed
the major globally traded cur- dum on the U.K.’s membership rencies to sell when a global was little changed at ¥117.68. The move by Goldman un- some employees and assets.
rencies, including those in the European Union could growth scare hits. derscores how difficult condi- On a conference call with ana-
weighed down by the plunging hurt the economy. “The pound has been a vic- tions are in bond trading. The lysts in October, after the firm
price of commodities, such as The U.K. has been among tim of unrequited expectations AUCTION RESULTS firm historically has made out- had reported a drop in fixed-
Here are the results of Wednesday's Treasury
the Canadian and Australian the fastest-growing developed about monetary policy,” said auction. All bids are awarded at a single price at the size profits in that business income trading revenue, Gold-
market-clearing yield. Rates are determined by the
dollars. economies in recent years, the Neil Mellor, a currency strate- difference between that price and the face value. and has remained more com- man finance chief Harvey
In late New York trading on reason that central bankers gist at BNY Mellon. “Last year, NINE-YEAR, 10-MONTH NOTES mitted to the debt markets Schwartz noted the firm had
Wednesday, the pound was were expected to raise rates. [BOE Gov. Mark] Carney Applications $58,132,399,600 than many peers. cut more than 10% of its fixed-
Accepted bids $21,000,041,600
down 0.3% on the day at But investors say growing dusted off his hawkish rheto- " noncompetitively $19,469,600
“If any company in the income staff over several
$1.4407. fears over China have clouded ric, but then oil and China " foreign noncompetitively $0 business wasn’t doing some years and reduced its balance
Auction price (rate) 101.412894
“There was a feeling that the prospects for a U.K. rate came along.” (2.090%)
version of this, that would be sheet by 20%.
once the Fed got moving, ex- rise. While Britain isn’t alone The BOE isn’t the only bank Interest rate 2.250% a bigger question,” said Glenn “In this part of the cycle,
Bids at clearing yield accepted 36.29%
pectations for the Bank of Eng- in being exposed to a global to display nerves over Chinese Cusip number 912828M56
Schorr, an analyst with Ever- we have been very disciplined
land would get pulled for- growth slowdown, the BOE’s weakness and falling commod- The notes, dated Jan. 15, 2016, mature on Nov. 15, core ISI. “We’ve had an indus- about how we manage those
ward,” said Paul Lambert, head status as one of the few cen- ities. Minutes of the Fed’s De- 2025. try revenue pool go down by resources,” Mr. Schwartz said.
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France CAC 40 4391.94 13.19 0.30 –5.3 Natural Health Trends NHTC 21.38 2.20 11.47 55.45 10.40 71.0 Halozyme Therapeutics HALO 10.06 -2.16 -17.68 25.25 10.03 -33.3
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Netherlands AEX 418.05 1.64 0.39 –5.4 Most Active Stocks Volume Movers Ranked by change from 65-day average*
Spain IBEX 35 8934.50 19.10 0.21 –6.4 Volume % chg from Latest Session 52-Week Volume % chg from Latest Session 52-Week
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Sweden SX All Share 474.23 1.81 0.38 –6.1
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5960.97 0.54 –4.5 iPath SP 500 VIX Sht Tm VXX 119,108 84.7 25.20 10.00 37.35 15.48 Tuttle Tactical Mgt Multi TUTI 331 1835 22.38 -0.36 26.27 22.35
U.K. FTSE 100 31.73
Bank Of America BAC 116,932 44.8 14.90 -2.68 18.48 14.60 Amplify Snack Brands BETR 3,388 1388 9.73 -0.31 17.20 9.15
Asia-Pacific DJ Asia-Pacific TSM 1296.14 20.65 1.62 –6.7 Ford Motor F 101,793 256.0 12.20 -5.06 16.74 10.44 LendingTree TREE 6,629 1294 61.14 -29.42 139.58 38.85
Australia S&P/ASX 200 4987.40 62.30 1.26 –5.8 Finl Select Sector SPDR XLF 99,951 131.9 21.72 -2.60 25.62 18.52 Guggenheim S&P 500 EqWtCnRHS 1,240 1246 111.53 -2.16 117.82 69.51
China Shanghai Composite 2949.60 –73.26 –2.42 –16.7
VelocityShares 3x Lg UWTI 76,343 108.3 2.19 -1.79 43.20 2.04 DB 3x Japan Govt Bd Fut JGBT 167 1204 27.47 2.77 27.67 24.22
Hong Kong Hang Seng 19934.88 223.12 1.13 –9.0
iShares MSCI Emg Markets EEM 70,455 12.5 29.25 -1.05 44.19 29.18 Guggenheim S&P 500 Fncls RYF 697 1190 39.33 -2.72 45.80 30.83
India S&P BSE Sensex 24854.11 172.08 0.70 –4.8
iShares Russell 2000 ETF IWM 69,160 103.2 100.38 -3.21 129.10 99.65 Gazit-Globe GZT 72 1190 8.67 -4.09 13.57 8.66
Japan Nikkei Stock Avg 17715.63 496.67 2.88 –6.9
PwrShrs QQQ Tr Series 1 QQQ 65,458 98.1 101.90 -3.45 115.75 84.74 Biotie Therapies ADR BITI 198 1043 13.97 -0.21 25.39 12.43
Singapore Straits Times 2696.50 4.72 0.18 –6.5 Microsoft MSFT 65,167 74.7 51.64 -2.16 56.85 39.72 PwrShs SP 500 Hi Quality SPHQ 2,741 1012 21.77 -2.07 23.94 18.67
South Korea Kospi 1916.28 25.42 1.34 –2.3
* Volumes of 100,000 shares or more are rounded to the nearest thousand * Common stocks priced at $5 a share or more with an average volume over 65 trading days of at least
Taiwan Weighted 7824.61 56.16 0.72 –6.2 5,000 shares =Has traded fewer than 65 days
Sources: SIX Financial Information; WSJ Market Data Group
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Qualcomm Chooses to Walk Down a Different Deal Path tinued sales growth in China
this year, worries about the
world’s second-largest econ-
Faced with the choice of ate across more networks Exposure to RF filters than $12 billion, more than omy haven’t gone away. GM
build it or buy it, Qualcomm Tuned In globally. Filters also are a gives Qualcomm access to double its level two years says it expects “modest” in-
wisely took the middle road. Market value of chip makers notable hole in Qualcomm’s more chip slots in wireless ago. Even Qorvo, down by dustry growth around the
That is a surprise: Many specializing in RF components own portfolio, largely cen- devices. And unlike base- more than half in the past world.
believed the company’s war Avago
tered around baseband pro- bands, which are typically six months, still is worth It is certainly possible
In billions
chest of nearly $20 billion in $34 cessors that connect wireless limited to one per phone, the more than $6 billion. That is that investors are too pessi-
net cash would fund an ex- NXP devices to networks. market for RF chips can out- more than double Qual- mistic on the car market’s
tension of last year’s chip- 26 Qualcomm has about two- pace the market for devices comm’s largest deal to date. prospects. If so, the forward
sector M&A party. But Qual- Skyworks thirds of the baseband mar- themselves. The dollar value Joint ventures typically earnings multiple of under
comm on Wednesday 12 ket now. But the business of RF chips in the iPhone 6s shield participating compa- six times makes for a solid
Qorvo
announced a $3 billion joint 6 has come under attack from rose by 25% versus its prede- nies from downside while opportunity. The mean Wall
venture with TDK. This Qualcomm/TDK* Chinese competitors and In- cessor, estimates Ed Snyder also limiting the upside. In Street analyst price target is
could expand its footprint in 3 tel, who have been under- of Charter Equity. this light, Qualcomm’s latest $42, according to FactSet,
wireless devices beyond the *Stated value of joint venture Source: FactSet pricing Qualcomm in an ef- That also has made RF move probably won’t trans- representing upside of
modem chips that form the fort to build up their own chip makers much more ex- form its business. But it nearly 40%.
core of its existing business. ters. These are chips that re- share. Revenue for Qual- pensive than they used to be. should help the company rev But to win over investors,
TDK, which is best known duce interference from comm’s chip business fell 8% Avago sports a market value up its smartphone offerings, stronger sales figures start-
for audio and video cassette crowded airwaves, as smart- in the fiscal year ended Sept. of $35 billion, partially the while also keeping plenty of ing with January results sure
tapes, also has a business in phones and other wireless 27, while pretax earnings result of its own M&A spree. fuel in the tank for future wouldn’t hurt.
radio-frequency, or RF, fil- devices are designed to oper- plunged 35%. Skyworks is worth more endeavors. —Dan Gallagher —Charley Grant
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EARBUDS
a sports assistant, measuring heart
rate, movement, temperature and
oxygen saturation. It presents the
results in its app and with a ro-
Continued from the prior page botic voice in your ear. The heart
dents have more places to buy fashion store moved in. By 2013, it be offered on the ground floor. Straus and his dale’s during
clothing—online or in stores—than was Loehmann’s that was ailing fi- Higher floors will carry womens- wife Ida die in the
at any time in recent history. nancially. At Barneys, now owned wear, men’s goods, and its restau- her visit for the
Still, New Yorkers love their de- by investors including majority rant, Fred’s.
sinking of the United States
partment stores. Retail palaces are owner Perry Capital, Chief Execu- There will be fewer cash regis- Titanic. Bicentennial
deeply woven into the culture and tive Mark Lee pounced, recogniz- ters than in most department 1924: Macy’s celebration.
image of the city, as showcased in ing an opportunity to market this stores and more iPads and mobile
checkouts, with sales associates holds its first ever 1980: Bonwit Teller is bulldozed
using apps to help recognize shop- Christmas Parade, now Macy’s and replaced by the Trump
pers who have agreed to be Thanksgiving Day Parade. The
tracked. Digital beacons will beam Tower in 1983.
first parades included borrowed —Abbey Crain
photos and information to those
shoppers’ mobile devices as they animals from the Central Park
move around the store. The store Zoo.
will accept Apple Pay. None of this
is groundbreaking technology in 1930: The Fashion Group was
2016, but it is more than most de- founded and stylists were hired
partment stores currently employ. by department stores to advise
“We’re very focused on the ex- male executives of female cus-
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duced cancellations, mishandled bags
and bumped passengers. “I like the fact
to higher rates of complaints, says
Robert Isom, American’s chief operat-
know what you’re getting into, you that all airlines are improving,” says ing officer.
may be in for a surprise,” Spirit Dave Holtz, Delta’s senior vice presi- In addition, stormy weather hit the
FRANCE spokesman Paul Berry says. dent for operations. “I’m fairly heart- Dallas area hard in February, May and
United boosted its on-time perfor- ened by where we are as an industry December. The airline didn’t go a day
mance and baggage handling and re- compared to 10 to 15 years ago.” in May without some flights diverting.
duced cancellations and bumping pas- Southwest, which operates more Last fall, the airline opened a new op-
sengers off overbooked flights. Its flights than any other big airline and erations center combining staffs from
improvement moved it off the bottom struggled some with operations after the two airlines. “The hope is we’re
of the overall rankings. But the airline its 2011 merger with AirTran Airways, into clearer skies here,” Mr. Isom says.
has a long way to go to catch up to also improved. After on-time rates Hawaiian Airlines scores well in
some rivals. It remained in the lower dropped, Southwest overhauled its many of the seven categories studied,
half of every category measured. schedule starting in late 2014, building but isn’t included in the rankings be-
Mr. Compton says the airline fo-
cused on reliability, investing in every-
in more time on the ground between
flights. Like United, it invested in bet-
cause of its lack of exposure to main-
land U.S. weather and congestion.
thing from better software for manag-
ing cancellations to upgraded hand-
ter software to recover from storms
faster.
Spirit says the biggest reason it
ends up on the bottom of on-time
held bag-tag scanners that alert ramp The airline struggled with checked- rankings is that it doesn’t build cush-
workers when a bag is on a tight con- baggage volume because it offers to ion into its schedule—it schedules
nection. transport bags free. But last year bag- flights for the actual time it takes to
The “cancel analyzer” software had gage handling improved: Southwest fly if everything goes correctly. That
the biggest impact, says Tracy Lee, hired more runners to move bags to allows the airline to keep costs lower,
United’s vice president for network op- connecting flights as they come out of since airlines typically pay crews the
erations. When bad weather is fore- planes, rather than waiting for all bags greater of actual time or scheduled
cast, it looks at United’s schedule and to be taken off a flight before routing time for each flight, and it lets Spirit
other airlines and predicts how many to connecting flights, says Steve schedule a few more flights with the
flights a hub airport can accommodate Hozdulick, Southwest’s managing di- same size fleet, since planes aren’t sit-
in 30-minute blocks, and which flights rector of operational performance. ting on the ground as long.
United should cancel to minimize im- American’s merger with US Airways In July, bad weather left a large
pact on passengers. The result is fewer continued to affect operations last number of Spirit pilots and flight at-
cancellations: In January and February year. Until reservation systems merged tendants stuck in Chicago. Then a trop-
last year, United deiced more airplanes ical storm moved into Texas, ground-
than the same two months of 2014, in- ing flights there. “For about a four-day
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Q: I am a classic dresser—and my
wardrobe contains items that
have served me well for years. Some
sheets, whose higher prices reflect
higher thread counts.
Retail prices reflect the costs that
isolated one spot on the planet
where she finds serenity: the
COMO Shambhala Estate, set out-
cotton-knit tops or pants from even a go into design and marketing, raising side the artists’ colony of Ubud,
decade ago are still not pilling or fuzz- the price of garments produced in small Bali, and surrounded by rice pad-
ing—yet their “sisters” purchased in batches in countries like Italy and dies and giant palms.
more recent years (same brand, same France when compared with mass-mar- The Hightower De Niro family
retailer) might last only a year. Obvi- keted goods stamped out by the thou- took its first holiday to this well-
ously the manufacturer is providing a sands in low-cost manufacturing coun- ness retreat six years
more cheaply made alternative. Aside tries like China and India. Be wary of DREAM ago, and the former
from purchasing used items (as I new designer labels that sell mainly to SPACE actress and singer of-
sometimes do), how can one gauge small boutiques—it’s that narrow distri- ten recalls its peace-
the quality and lifespan of cotton bution that jacks up the retail prices. fulness. “I love the
knits? —S.A. Looking for top-of-the-line cotton fact that there was this river that
knits? Pay close attention to how the flows through the property and
decade ago may not be as long-lasting other fabrics) as long-lasting as they perience was very surreal.”
as they used to be. And how about used to be. Contemporary consumers It was also adventurous and
those cotton knits that boomers couldn’t care less about durability; to- physically challenging. Ms. High-
bought more than 20 years ago? Are day’s generations simply don’t know tower De Niro, 60, did tai chi
they still holding up? Today’s compara- the difference. They buy what looks classes daily, and some white-wa-
ble fabrics just don’t measure up. trendy—and cheap. Those flimsy cotton ter rafting. “It was terrifying,” she
What’s a shopper to do? knits that might make you cringe are says.
If you’re a stickler for the highest good enough for most people. Good The Mississippi-born entrepre-
quality and insist on the best cotton enough to last for a season, after neur finds a connection between
knits, start out by narrowing your which people will blithely discard them, her business home of Rwanda and
search to higher price upscale gar- to make room for what’s new. her spiritual home of Bali, even
ments. But don’t trust that the $400 though she has been there only
cotton knit “designer” sweater will be Email questions to once. She is the founder and chief
superior. Sweaters aren’t fancy bed askteri@wsj.com executive of the sustainable coffee
maker and distributor Coffee of
Grace, which sources its beans
from Rwanda. Ms. Hightower De
Niro travels often to Rwanda to
oversee the beans’ handpicking,
sorting and washing, along with
every aspect of packaging and dis-
tribution.
She lives in New York with her The Rwandan families lived off
4-year-old daughter and her 17- what they grew, then sold the ex-
year-old son. She is married to the cess for profit—like Ms. Hightower
actor Robert De Niro. DeNiro’s youth in central Missis-
Not long after she heard sippi with 10 brothers and sisters,
Rwanda’s President Kigame give a she says.
speech about his poverty-stricken She had no grand plan to go
country needing “trade, not aid” into the coffee business, she says,
about four years ago, Ms. High- “but I tasted the coffee, and it was
ROBERT NEUBECKER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
ARTS IN REVIEW
PHOTOGRAPHY SIGHTINGS
What’s a Photograph?
Ocean of Images: New
Photography 2015
Museum of Modern Art
Through March 20
BY RICHARD B. WOODWARD
‘N
New York
ew Photography” is a
regular exhibition at
the Museum of Mod-
ern Art that regularly infuri-
ates. Like the Whitney Biennial,
it is supposed to identify the
JACK WASSERMAN
latest trends, a purpose that
makes enemies. Dismissive
MISHKA HENNER/BRUCE SILVERSTEIN GALLERY
I
The 25th anniversary edi- corded them could possibly
tion, “Ocean of Images: New elements. Together they illus- Saveri (Italian, b. 1980), a col- landing. She has fractured the t’s the grossest of under- have fallen into obscurity.
Photography 2015,” is distinc- trate, according to the press laboration with the American original of this MoMA favorite statements to say that The main reason, I suspect,
tive for its size and interna- notes, “the process by which media company Alldayevery- into hundreds of overlapping cocktail pianists get no re- is that Walter’s playing was a
tional scope. Curators Quentin photography often displaces day, is a re-creation of the zine scans, and added three more spect. They spend most of bit tricky to categorize. He
Bajac, Lucy Gallun and Roxana the reality it documents.” To and record pop-up store they staircases, one of them with their lives playing for people wasn’t a jazz pianist, prefer-
Marcoci, with assistance by commission doll houses of installed in a Brooklyn subway Ben-Day-dotted figures, an who aren’t listening, a not-in- ring to describe himself as “a
Kristen Gaylord, have chosen places where members of the station in 2013-14. Its popular- homage to Roy Lichtenstein. significant number of whom specialist in show tunes.” In-
work by 19 artists from 14 secret police directed atrocities ity with MoMA’s visitors sug- But perhaps the standout are either drunk or en route to stead of going off on melodic
countries. is perverse in itself. Odder still, gests that photographs on pa- here is an artist’s book by Da- being so. And while I never ac- tangents, he played a tune the
This survey corroborates re- Mr. Šerpytyté has further re- per have an enduring appeal, a vid Horvitz (American, b. 1982). tually heard anyone ask for way the songwriter wrote it,
ports from the frontier by moved us from buried histori- tangible fact underscored by On a Wikipedia page called “Melancholy Baby” in the long- embedding its familiar con-
other curators—namely, that the rapidity with which crowds “Mood disorder,” he inserted a ago days when I gigged in bars, tours in a richly wrought ac-
the avant-garde is again turn- have been walking away with photograph he had taken of it’s usually safe to assume that companiment from which it
ing images into sculpture and For today’s artists, the free offset lithographs by himself, head in hands, feigning when somebody does have a shone forth like a well-framed
architecture, as photographers computer skills are the Angolan artist Edson Cha- sadness. His piece consists of request, it’ll be for something painting. Though his playing
did in the 1960s. Impurity gas (b. 1977), part of his 2013 paper downloads from the web, you’ve played an octillion recalled the equally virtuosic
rules. With the Internet the now more needed than piece “Found Not Taken, Lu- examples from newspapers, times. On the other hand, it’s style of Art Tatum, his good
primary image source, com- camera know-how. anda.” drug companies or Facebook also true that most cocktail pi- friend and favorite pianist,
puter skills are now more Some of the most engaging that reused this “stock” image anists aren’t worth listening Walter rarely employed the
needed than camera know-how. artists here are represented by for stories or posts on suicide to, at least not very closely. chromatic substitute chords
Conceptualism remains the only a single work. The two- and depression. Sometimes they’re just going that Tatum loved to deploy,
dominant mode. In making cal truths instead of trying to channel video by Zbynĕk It’s the reverse of standard through the motions (and who nor did his playing swing the
puzzles with software, how- expose them. Baladrán (Czech, b. 1973), “Di- artistic practice these days: In- shall blame them?) and some- way Tatum’s did. He liked
ever, the young continue to mix David Hartt’s mordant pho- derot’s Dream,” uses the form stead of appropriating images times they simply aren’t very smooth, danceable tempos, and
analogue with digital, if only to tographs of the airless interiors of the serio-comic dialogue be- from the Internet, he let the his most staggering feats of
maintain that neither holds a at a public-policy think tank in loved by the French philosophe anonymous crowd appropriate prestidigitation, unlike Tatum’s
copyright on the Truth. Midland, Mich., are the most to pose a series of questions— his self-portrait for their own Cy Walter was one of watch-me-skip-on-the-high-
The show won’t appease its traditional in the show. The Ca- typed on the screen—about the ends. As more evidence that the finest popular wire stunts, were tossed off
critics. A gender-bending video nadian (b. 1967) documents the death of societies and the photographs are seldom reli- with the puma-footed stealth
by the American collective DIS gray cubicles and the stagger- death of stars. As with Diderot, able indexes of genuine emo- pianists of the 20th of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves,
(founded 2010) in the first ing piles of paper housed and the style may be blithe but the tion, it’s clever. Whether he is century, a reputation who worked his own miracles
room isn’t nearly as provoca- generated in the place. His sat- effect is heady. more than that, though, I of discretion without ever rais-
tive as the curators think it is. ire might be more cutting if he The vastness of the cosmos couldn’t tell, as this is his only his son is working hard ing his voice.
A DJ with a black beard and a didn’t settle for glib ironies, and the poetry of photography piece in the show. to revive decades after That‘s what made Walter so
flowing white dress can’t com- such as a partition topped with are ingeniously combined in Museums in the past few popular in hotel lounges: You
pete with Caitlyn Jenner’s re- a small American flag that on “Astronomical,” an artist’s en- years have presented us with the musician’s death. could sit and marvel at his
cent transformation, and a close inspection reads “Made cyclopedia by Mishka Henner an array of new images charac- playing if you liked, or you
video of the robot Bina48 in China” on its plastic staff. (British, b. 1976). A map of the teristic of our digital age. “New could sip your martini and chat
prompts more admiration for Lucas Blalock (b. 1978) and solar system in 12 volumes, it Photography 2015” has given good. But a few such folk are with your companion of the
her inventor than for DIS. John Houck (b. 1977) are both proves that the inadequacy of us more compelling examples. true artists, and one of them, evening. Bob Bach put it well
Indre Šerpytyté (b. 1983) Americans who use digital ed- describing such a boundless It’s about time, though, that Cy Walter, was a very great in a 1946 profile quoted in the
had wood carvers make eight iting to place real-world ob- subject with cameras—most of curators did more than take a one, among the finest popular liner notes to “Sublimities”:
tiny models of buildings in his jects (strawberries or pencils the pages are black—hasn’t team photo. Which young art- pianists of the 20th century. “To describe the magic that Cy
native Lithuania where be- on tabletops) in computer-gen- thwarted the ceaseless desire ists are making bodies of work Walter, who died in 1968, Walter weaves around the bab-
tween 1944 and 1991 one of the erated backgrounds. Their to categorize the unknown. with diversity and depth? And spent most of his career play- ble of a crowded barroom is
Soviet-era intelligence services topsy-turvy still-lifes may one Katharina Gaenssler (Ger- which museum will be brave ing in classy hotel lounges for like trying to describe the feel
(NKVD, MVD, MGB or KGB) had day be described by photo-his- man, b. 1974) has taken Oskar and persuasive enough to ar- Manhattanites who got dressed of an expensive fabric.”
its headquarters. He then made torians as pioneering. For now, Schlemmer’s 1932 painting of a gue their case? up to do their drinking. He was Such players tend not to be
black-and-white photographs though, they’re more academic Bauhaus stairway as the basis closely identified with the properly appreciated by critics,
of the models. than arresting. for a wraparound photo-mural Mr. Woodward is an arts Drake Room of the now-de- most of whom turn up their
The piece consists of both “The Newsstand” by Lele on the museum’s third-floor critic in New York. funct Drake Hotel, where he noses at the imagined taint of
performed off and on from commercialism associated with
1945 until his death and where cocktail piano. Musicians, by
JAZZ his listeners included the likes contrast, know better. It’s no
of Tallulah Bankhead, Leonard surprise that Ethan Iverson,
D
Oliveros’s work is often medi- on network radio, performing wrote Walter a fan letter in
rummer Ches Smith is tative; Mr. Curran is kinetic, weekly on a series called “Pi- which he said that “I have
renowned in several mu- but often in a subdued manner; ano Playhouse.” But his celeb- never heard better taste.” Lis-
sic communities. He has and Mr. Frith is a master of rity, such as it was, dried up ten to the gently rippling 1946
drummed with indie rock working with unusual rhythms. when he died: Walter’s albums performance of Rodgers’s
bands, most notably Xiu Xiu; Mr. Smith played in various went out of print shortly “Falling in Love With Love” in-
he performs in Haitian percus- settings on the West Coast be- thereafter, and from then on cluded on the first “Sublimi-
sion groups; he has played in fore moving to New York in his name was known only to ties” CD and you’ll hear what
heralded jazz ensembles led by 2008 in search of more oppor- connoisseurs. he meant. No, it’s not jazz, but
guitarist Mary Halvorson and tunities to play his music. He Mark Walter, Cy’s son, is who cares? It’s music, and it’s
in the group Snakeoil led by quickly became a first-call trying to change all that. He gorgeous—with or without an
saxophonist Tim Berne. His drummer in some precincts of started by launching an un- olive.
own projects include Congs for the jazz community. commonly well-stocked web-
Brums, a solo percussion set- For decades, jazz recordings site, www.cywalter.com, that is Mr. Teachout, the Journal’s
PAOLO SORIANI/ECM RECORDS
ting with electronic accompa- led by drummers featured the online equivalent of a pri- drama critic, now writes
niment, and These Arches, a thunderous roars of percus- mary-source biography of his “Sightings” every other Thurs-
quartet with Ms. Halvorson, sion, but in the past few years father. Now he’s commemo- day. Write to him at ttea-
multi-instrumentalist Andrea a different approach has rated the recent centennial of chout@wsj.com.
Parkins and saxophonist Tony emerged. Billy Hart leads con- Cy Walter’s birth in 1915 by co-
Malaby. Yet none of those di- ventional groups that feature a producing a pair of compact
verse activities effectively pre- more conversational tone. Jeff discs called “Sublimities” (both Pepper ...
view the subtlety, texture and Ballard has a trio that engages of which can be ordered from
elegance of his new group, a Mat Maneri, Craig Taborn and Ches Smith, whose new album, in subtle interplay. Tyshawn Amazon) that contain a total of
And Salt
trio with keyboardist Craig ‘The Bell,’ is out Friday. Sorey wowed critics with 52 tracks by his father. Some THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Taborn and violist Mat Maneri. 2014’s “Alloy” (Pi), a disc that are long-unavailable commer-
Mr. Smith’s new recording into a riff—but the silences are rative and riveting group im- brought contemporary classical cial recordings, others radio
“The Bell” (ECM, out Friday) charged, as if they constitute a provisations. “I’ll See You on effects to the genre. Mr. Smith airchecks that have never be-
features this group in a pro- fourth member of the group. the Dark Side of the Earth,” a is following in those footsteps; fore been released. On them
gram of eight stunning origi- And the band settles into an sly reference by Mr. Smith to a “The Bell” is an impressive Walter can be heard playing pi-
nals. The band will play the understated groove by the end classic Pink Floyd recording, chamber work. When I first ano solos and duets (he fre-
Winter Jazz Festival in New of the track, with Mr. Smith on features fascinating riffs heard Mr. Smith several years quently performed with Stan
York at the New School Tish- drums. He is an avid fan of the driven by the leader and ago in a band led by Ms. Hal- Freeman, a pianist of similar
man Auditorium on Friday and music of Thelonious Monk, who smartly accented by Messrs. vorson, his drumming was as- talent and stylistic inclination)
tour nationally Feb. 14-28. used silences to similar effect. Taborn and Maneri. sertive and cantankerous, as if and accompanying such sing-
The title track, which leads As if to confirm Mr. Smith’s Mr. Smith, who is 42 years he couldn’t wait for his sounds ers as Marlene Dietrich, Mabel
off the recording, begins with a interest in space, the second old, was born in San Diego and to reach the ears of the audi- Mercer and Frank Sinatra.
gentle rumble of Mr. Taborn’s composition is titled “Barely studied music at Mills College ence. His new music is so nu- Most of the tunes are blue-chip
piano clusters, plus long, pun- Intervallic,” and it features in California. His mentors there anced; he has mastered the standards, with a few original
gent notes from Mr. Maneri compelling group interplay were the composers Alvin Cur- fine art of drawing the listener compositions by Walter
and accents from Mr. Smith on highlighted by Mr. Smith’s ran, Pauline Oliveros and Fred to it. thrown in for good measure.
vibraphone and timpani. There drumming and Mr. Maneri’s Frith. If there’s a link on his ré- All are performed with a con-
are long swaths of silence as gripping bow work. “Isn’t It sumé to the music on this re- Mr. Johnson writes about summate elegance and techni- “Oh, I learned my lesson—
the band languorously settles Over?” features a tighter nar- cording, it could be in the mu- jazz for the Journal. cal wizardry that make you there’s no bad publicity.”
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SPORTS
Heard On
The Field
Ex-Tailback Phillips
Found Dead in Jail Cell
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Former NFL running back and Larry Fitzgerald catches nals into a divisional-round playoff a problem. Munnerlyn, who has met him one time!”
college star Lawrence Phillips was game against the Green Bay Packers faced Fitzgerald multiple times in Confronted with such positively
found dead in his prison cell, ac- opponents off guard with on Saturday, Fitzgerald is among the his career, said he will get himself decent behavior, players face a co-
cording to the California Depart- cordial remarks on field NFL’s leading receivers, with 109 fired up to face the Arizona receiver. nundrum on the field: How should
ment of Corrections and Rehabilita- catches for 1,215 yards. But he has But then Fitzgerald shows up. “All of they respond? Blackmon, who has
tion. He was 40. BY KEVIN CLARK emerged as the league’s runaway the sudden, I’ve got a guy coming up covered Fitzgerald since the corner-
Phillips (below) was found unre- leader in killing opponents with to me saying: ‘Hey, Captain, I see back was at Boston College and
sponsive in his cell early Wednes- Like most cornerbacks who have kindness. you, you’re doing so well this year, Fitzgerald was at Pittsburgh, said he
day morning during a security check to cover Larry Fitzgerald, Minne- “He’s asking how your family is,” keep it up!’” Munnerlyn said. “That’s used to responded to the nice com-
and pronounced dead at 1:27 a.m. It sota’s Captain Munnerlyn knew he said Washington Redskins corner- Fitz. He’s asking how you’re doing, ments—but has since realized that
is being investigated as a suspected had some serious work to do. back Will Blackmon. “And then he’s how your family is.” you do so at your own peril.
suicide, according to the CDCR. He would have to study film on trying to bomb you for 70 yards Wide receivers aren’t usually re- “What he’s trying to do, he’s try-
Phillips was imprisoned in 2008 Fitzgerald’s supreme route-running, right after.” nowned for their courteous conduct ing to relax you,” Blackmon said. “So
on a 31-year sentence for domestic his ability to make tough catches in Atlanta Falcons cornerback Des- on the field. But players believe eventually he keeps saying some-
violence, corporal injury to a spouse, traffic and how he uses his 6-foot-3 mond Trufant entered the league in Fitzgerald, who did not respond to thing like: ‘How’s your family?’ and
false imprisonment and vehicle frame to box out defenders. But 2013, long after his older brothers requests for comment for this story, you’ll say: ‘Oh great, how’s your fam-
theft. He was also in the early that wasn’t all Munnerlyn had to Marcus and Isaiah had started play- is being genuine when he throws ily?’ And then he’ll run and try to
stages of a trial for the 2015 mur- prepare for. ing in the NFL. Knowing his brothers niceties their way. That doesn’t make slam you.”
der of his cellmate. “I cannot take the bait,” Munner- a little bit, Fitzgerald cornered Tru- it any less uncomfortable, though. That’s what happened to Panthers
Phillips’s personal and legal prob- lyn said. “I’ve got to yell and get an- fant during their 2013 matchup just Former Pittsburgh Steelers defen- cornerback Josh Norman in a game
lems ultimately ended a once-prom- gry, I’ve got to get on him. I can’t let to inquire how they were doing. sive back Ike Taylor, who took on last year. Norman, one of the most
ising football career. A star at the him be so nice that I can’t get into “He played against my brothers Fitzgerald in Super Bowl XLIII, said outspoken cornerbacks in the NFL,
University of Nebraska, Phillips was game mode.” for years, he knew my whole family, the receiver’s affable behavior is a said he loves to have an ongoing dia-
drafted in 1996 by the Rams and It turns out facing Fitzgerald so he asked about that,” said Tru- year-round activity. logue with receivers he’s covering
played for three seasons for three brings with it a unique challenge. Al- fant. “There was all this casual talk. Taylor, now an analyst for the during a game—preferably with lots
different NFL teams. ready one of the best receivers in I was thrown off. I’m trying to focus NFL Network, said Fitzgerald is re- of trash talk. “If a receiver talks, he
—Andrew Beaton NFL history, Fitzgerald has rein- and he’s being a real good dude.” garded as “one of the rare guys who gets me going; if he doesn’t, I’ve got
vented himself as a slot receiver at Fitzgerald has long been known has lots of money and everyone to find myself something else to do,”
age 32 and is in the midst of what as one of the most respectful—and loves him. He respects the game.” Norman said.
may be his most impressive season. widely respected—players in the That respect, Taylor said, includes Going up against Fitzgerald, Nor-
But cornerbacks say one of the league. Seattle Seahawks corner- Fitzgerald’s uncanny knack for re- man readied himself for a battle of
biggest concerns before matching up back Richard Sherman has said membering nearly every fact about words. But Fitzgerald said nothing
with the Arizona Cardinals star is the Fitzgerald is off-limits when it players he’s met. “Larry remembers for the entire duration of the game.
slew of pleasantries, cordial remarks, comes to talk trash. people’s birthdays, anniversaries, It was, Norman remembered, one of
good-natured comments and other- But for players like Munnerlyn, just out of the blue,” Taylor said. the more professional encounters he
wise amiable chatter that Fitzgerald who like to whip themselves into a “You hear stories, guys are like: ‘Hey, can ever remember.
throws their way during a game. frenzy for some extra juice on the where’d this present come from? Oh, “He’s just a genuine human being”
As he prepares to lead the Cardi- field, Fitzgerald’s congeniality can be Larry Fitzgerald.’ And they’ve only said Taylor. “You can’t trash talk that.”