Members of Congress are finally getting serious about protecting privacy online. If only they had some better ideas on how to do so. The latest entrant is a bill sponsored by Senators Josh Hawley and Mark Warner. Among other things, it would require big tech platforms such as Facebook and Google to tell users how much money their personal information ...

Step One complete for Tesla Inc.: Deliveries secured. The company reported second-quarter production and sales numbers after the market closed, and they were smack in the middle of guidance. With doubts about Tesla’s ability to hit its figures after the first quarter’s washout, delivering more than 95,000 vehicles — a record — provided the predictable shot in the arm for ...

Christine Lagarde, nominated to lead the European Central Bank (ECB), will need all her proven attributes, and help from others, to succeed as the new leader of one of the world’s three most systemically important central banks. An inspired choice, she is uniquely well placed to build on her accomplishments as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. In ...