Bloomberg The way Tina Huang tells it, the path to her resignation from Twitter Inc. was a Kafkaesque experience. She said she was denied a promotion, led to believe her coding skills were inferior, asked to take a leave of absence, and scolded for taking that leave. Two years ago, she sued, contending that the company systematically thwarts the advancement ...

Kevin Hassett evidently has not received the memo that economics is ‘the dismal science.’ The ebullient chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers is relishing the intellectual feast of applying to policymaking the predictive tools of a science that was blindsided by the Great Recession. Economists, like other scientists, learn things even when — actually, especially when — they ...

Poor Guangzhou R&F Properties Co. China’s third-most-indebted developer, already burdened by its acquisition of Dalian Wanda Group Co.’s hotel portfolio, has once again had to push back its A-share listing, just as more evidence emerges the government’s real-estate-cooling measures are starting to bite. R&F said on Sunday its planned float of shares in China, mooted as far back as May ...