Four months from now, the last 2,500 American troops will have left Afghanistan. The British, Australians, Canadians and other allies will be in the same boat, figuratively if not literally, having also sacrificed blood and treasure in the 20-year struggle first, to remove Kabul’s Taliban government, thereafter to sustain its successor regimes. Why has President Joe Biden lost patience, the ...

For the past generation, Amazon.com Inc has been the centerpiece of a prevailing view that the growth of the internet has had a deflationary impact. Online shopping brought transparency to every aspect of the economy, increasing competition and taking pricing power away from companies that used to have it. Now Amazon may be leading the marketplace in a new direction ...

Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer Jes Staley has proved skeptics wrong: Hanging on to the British bank’s large securities business has been a blessing, especially during the pandemic. Staley was under pressure at various points to cut back on riskier trading activities. He held off and his firm — like its Wall Street peers — has prospered, riding the wave ...