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Nestle’s Poland Spring is groundwater, alleges new suit

Bloomberg Nestle SA’s Poland Spring Water unit has duped American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary groundwater that’s pumped from some of Maine’s most populated areas, rather than from natural springs as the company advertises, according to a lawsuit. While Poland Springs says its water bottles contain “100 percent natural spring water” from a source deep in Maine’s woods, ...

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The new Mercedes Maybach concept, a 20-foot-long convertible

Bloomberg At a private estate on Pebble Beach Golf Course in Carmel, Calif., Mercedes-Benz unveiled its latest concept car: the Mercedes-Maybach Vision 6 Cabriolet last week. Like the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept that the company unveiled prior to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last year, the Maybach 6 Cabriolet is an electric car that’s nearly 20 feet long, has a ...

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The US missed its chance to make China play fair

Generals, the old saying goes, always fight the last war. A similar (though less pithy) principle is that politicians always propose solutions to the last decade’s problems. In the US, there are two main areas where we see this principle at work. The first is immigration—net illegal immigration stopped a decade ago, but President Donald Trump and his supporters are ...

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