Bloomberg Theresa May urged Britons to abandon the Leave-Remain split that has beset the country since the Brexit referendum in 2016. After 2 1/2 years of division, it’s time to “put aside our differences and focus on what really matters,” the UK premier wrote in a letter to readers of the Daily Express newspaper. In a missive also aimed at ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump is coming off one of his roughest weeks as president, at least in his critics’ eyes — instigating a government shutdown fight, provoking his defense chief’s resignation, abruptly pulling US troops from two global hotspots, and even thinking about firing the head of the US central bank. Yet, as hard as it is for the outside world ...

Markets, to paraphrase Nobel prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling, often forget that they keep forgetting. That’s especially true when it comes to the intractable challenges posed by global debt. Since 2008, governments around the world have looked for relatively painless ways to lower high debt levels, a central cause of the last crisis. Cutting interest rates to zero or below made ...