There’s not a more important economic imperative for the US than the transition to renewable energy. Ominously, anti-development forces — commonly known as NIMBYs — threaten to make this transition much harder. And much of that NIMBY energy is coming from the political left. Consider the recent blockage of a solar power plant near Las Vegas. The Battle Born Solar ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has made a very small down payment on a prolonged economic recovery, one durable enough to withstand Covid-19’s troubling variants and any other pandemic developments. But the big decision-making comes in December, when the central bank undertakes a comprehensive review of its bond-buying program, with a few more months of delta under its belt and ...

Bloomberg China’s government is assembling a group of accounting and legal experts to examine the finances of China Evergrande Group, a potential precursor to a restructuring of the world’s most indebted developer. Regulators in Evergrande’s home province of Guangdong dispatched a team last month from King & Wood Mallesons, a law firm whose specialties include restructuring, two people familiar with ...