AFP ITT Educational Services Inc said it would shut its flagship ITT Technical Institutes, following a U.S. Department of Education order, affecting thousands of students and employees. ITT’s move is the latest blow to the over $20 billion U.S. for-profit education industry, which has come under fire from the government in the past couple of years for its poor …

  David Davis, the U.K.’s new Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, made a statement to the House of Commons this week on the meaning of “Brexit means Brexit.” Commentators were roundly unimpressed. If I may be allowed to say, their apparent determination to be unimpressed is beginning to grate. To be sure, the complaints were partly justified: …

  The European Central Bank is expected to extend its quantitative easing program further during the meeting of its governing council this week. The irony is that while the ECB has various options for continuing a program that isn’t working, national governments have relatively few options for embarking on one that most agree is sorely needed. As Mario Draghi and …