It shouldn’t be a problem that incoming National Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow isn’t a trained economist possessing an advanced degree. It isn’t even necessarily disqualifying that he’s known as a famously bad pundit on financial matters. Neither shortcoming makes it impossible for him to do an excellent job leading the National Economic Council (NEC). But another skill is absolutely central ...

Li Ka-shing’s retirement from the empire he built over 68 years marks the end of an era for Hong Kong’s dominant billionaires and, in important ways, for the territory itself. A wartime refugee who started with nothing when the then-British colony was relatively poor and struggling, Li rose with other tycoons of his time as the city developed economically under ...

Every day that draws closer to the April 4 deadline for British companies to declare their gender pay gaps brings a pickup in the number of reports on file, and these cement the sad truth that men tend to get paid more than women. Only about a fifth of the companies who must submit their wage data have done so. ...