Lawrence Kudlow appears to be President Donald Trump’s pick to become the top White House economic adviser. At first glance, this television personality is an odd choice to lead the National Economic Council. But that doesn’t mean he’s a bad one. Kudlow is an avid supply-sider who never met a tax cut he didn’t like. He’s famously claimed that virtually ...

One of the themes of this economic cycle has been that tech startups have stayed private for a long time, choosing to raise money via venture capital rather than going public. When a downturn inevitably arrives, some may regret that. As prior cycles have shown, even if good startups technically can go public in a bad market, they generally don’t ...

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to think of India’s 21 state-run lenders as one gigantic bad bank that’s financially fragile, operationally weak, and forever in need of relief and rescue. But in trying to blame the banking supervisor for the latest manifestation of the lenders’ Inspector Clouseau-like ineptitude — a $2 billion scam at the second-largest — Finance Minister Arun ...