European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker cannot be looking forward to his meeting with Donald Trump. He knows there’s little hope of making the US president see sense on trade. (Trump confirmed on Twitter that “tariffs are the greatest.”) But Juncker can avoid making a bad situation worse, and with luck even suggest a way out of this mess. The EU ...

It’s easy to be outraged about multinational corporations’ shifting of profits to tax havens, but much harder to figure out how to stop them from doing it without hurting the economy. Evidence exists that curbing tax avoidance opportunities makes these firms move actual jobs, not just accounting profits, overseas. In a recent paper, Thomas Torslov, Ludvig Wier and Gabriel Zucman ...

Verizon Communications Inc closed the books on a critical quarter. The company named its next CEO, shut down its latest experiment in a string of failed mobile-video services, geared up for its rollout of 5G network service, and watched with insouciance as its three closest rivals — AT&T Inc., T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. — took bold steps on ...