As if it wasn’t bad enough getting into a fight with the president-elect over the cost of Air Force One, Boeing Co. is facing problems from the other side of the Pacific. Beijing is planning to step up scrutiny of US companies in the event that Donald Trump flips from trash-talking the cost of presidential aircraft to taking punitive …

  Foreign takeovers of British companies have been surprisingly few given the fall in sterling since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June. The bids for chip-designer Arm Holdings Plc, broadcaster Sky Plc and pubs group Punch Taverns are the only post-referendum deals for UK firms worth more than $1 billion, according to Bloomberg data. Activity has been …

  Noah Smith The same problems come up again and again in discussions of what Japan needs to do to revive its economy. The first is low white-collar productivity. The second is population aging. The third is gender equality. Now Japan’s government is poised to attack all three problems at once, undertaking an assault on one of the central features …