Jarrett Says Obama Speech on Rules `Not a Victory Lap’: Video

April 22 (Bloomberg) — Valerie Jarrett, a senior White House adviser, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about the outlook for President Barack Obama’s speech today in New York about overhauling regulations governing the US financial system. Obama will say today that the US risks dooming itself to a repeat of the economic crisis unless tougher financial industry regulations are enacted by Congress. Jarrett also discusses the performance of the Obama administration’s economic team. (Source: Bloomberg)

The 50 Greatest Books Ever Written

This list isn’t about the most famous or the most exciting books. It’s a list of books that truly enlightened and inspired readers. These books are some of the greatest works that humanity ever produced, real masterpieces in other words. From stories to science to philosophy I tried to make this list as diverse as possible. – Analects by Confucius – Avesta – Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson by GI Gurdjieff – Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau – Common Sense by Thomas Paine – Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Corpus Aristotelicum by Aristotle – Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener – Dhammapada – Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei – Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri – Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes – Encyclopedia by Denis Diderot – First Folio by William Shakespeare – Elements by Euclid – Guide For The Perplexed by Maimonides – Harmony Of The World by Johannes Kepler – History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon – History Of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides – I Ching – Iliad and Odyssey by Homer – Interpretation Of Dreams by Sigmund Freud – Kabbalah – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes – Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius – Mind And Society by Vilfredo Pareto – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell – Novum Organum by Francis Bacon – Old Testament and New Testament – On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Paul McCartney Receives Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: Video

June 3 (Bloomberg) — Singer Paul McCartney received the Library of Congress’s third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song yesterday. President Barack Obama hosted a concert at the White House honoring McCartney and presented the award to the former Beatle. Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker reports. (Source: Bloomberg)