Bloomberg President Donald Trump spent June 30 engaged in a deep dive into the backgrounds of the top prospects to fill an opening on the US Supreme Court but hasn’t begun interviews with the finalists. Trump is at his Bedminster, New Jersey, private golf club. He’s been studying the rulings, judicial philosophies and temperaments of his short list, said an ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May is under mounting pressure as she prepares for a crunch meeting this week aimed at ending the war inside her cabinet over Brexit. May, facing criticism from both the pro- and anti-Brexit wings of her ruling Conservative party, is planning talks with ministers at her countryside retreat on July 6 to thrash out an ...

Virtually all economists favour free trade. But we differ as to what the costs of trade restrictions might be. The decision of Harley-Davidson Inc. to shift more production overseas to Europe to avoid the impact of new tariffs presents a good opportunity to assess those costs – and the good news is that, so far, the economic costs of a ...