I lost 120 Twitter followers overnight. President Donald Trump lost 340,000, the New York Times 732,000, former President Barack Obama 3 million or so. Even Twitter’s chief executive officer, Jack Dorsey, lost 200,000 in his company’s much-hyped crackdown on dubious accounts. But what looks like a major purge is more like a public relations onslaught, as Twitter and Facebook try ...

The world’s biggest bond market just doesn’t know what to do with the prospect of an all-out trade war instigated by the US. On one side, there’s a strong argument that tariffs among the largest economies will stifle the global expansion and push yields in the $15 trillion Treasury market lower. Those concerns are appearing in the price of copper, ...

Many Americans still think of the US economy as increasingly dominated by knowledge and technology workers. In fact, when it comes to jobs growth in this decade, blue-collar industries have outpaced service industries, and the trend is accelerating. Tariffs may amplify this trend — making the US economy more like China’s economic model. Throughout the economic expansion in the 1980s ...