Boomberg Millions of Brazilians were stranded without public transport and faced shuttered banks and schools as labor unions staged a nationwide strike against President Michel Temer’s reform agenda. Groups of protesters clashed with police in Brazil’s major cities as buses, commuter trains and metro lines ground to a halt. Access roads to airports in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo ...

  In recent decades, psychologists and economists have produced a flood of new findings about how human beings think and act. Those findings offer compelling lessons about how to change people’s behaviour. Governments have taken notice — and so has the private sector. There are terrific opportunities here, but also real risks. Behavioral scientists have established, for example, that people ...

  Since becoming president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi has rarely looked as relaxed as he did in Thursday’s press conference. It’s not hard to see why: The euro-zone economy is gathering speed, confidence is soaring, and unemployment is tumbling. The recovery is also spreading across the region, reducing the risk that some countries may need a different ...