Wherever he is, President Donald Trump exults in the US economic boom, calling it, falsely, the strongest in history. (He’s just recently stopped making the same inaccurate claim for the US stock market.) He even bragged about having a “magic wand” he could wave to conjure jobs and growth. Never mind that almost 13 million of the 17 million jobs ...

So daunting is the challenge of overhauling the global energy system to prevent further catastrophic climate change, that just thinking about it feels paralysing. It’s been done before though, at least on a national level. During the 1970s and 1980s France built scores of nuclear power plants that now provide almost three-quarters of the country’s electricity. At the time, French ...

We knew the global auto industry was struggling, but is it this bad? Hyundai Motor Co. announced an almost 67 percent drop in net income, saying one-time recall costs to address quality issues were chiefly to blame. There’s a deeper problem, though. Nobody was prepared for the result, and investors fled, pushing the stock down as much as 10.7 percent. ...