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Tesla HR chief suggested ‘promoting’ UAW advocates

Bloomberg Tesla Inc.’s human resources boss emailed with Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk about offering employees promotions that could prevent them from continuing their advocacy for unionisation. “I saw it as positive they get involved in something they were criticising,” Gaby Toledano, who joined Tesla as “chief people officer” in May 2017 testified in a National Labor Relations Board hearing ...

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Emerging-market rebound depends on China, India

This year’s sell-off in emerging-markets assets has abated in recent weeks and valuations are tempting, but it’s too soon to say things have bottomed. The key to any rebound is China and India, two economies where the outlook has deteriorated in recent weeks. The relative size of their economies — together they accounted for more than 25 percent of global ...

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Fixing Britain’s housing crisis

Property bubbles have a habit of ignoring the fundamentals of having a roof over your head. The UK’s real-estate boom of the past decade was driven — especially in London — by government subsidies for buyers, cheap mortgages, and a fixation among investors that prices never go down. The less affordable homes became, the more they were sought after. It ...

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