Business

Americans are increasingly aware that some business leaders like to enter political debates over complex social issues — but not everybody likes it.

For a moment it seemed like the world’s biggest social network had established a beachhead in the world’s largest internet market. But only for a moment.

It’s just the fashion line, silly. But there’s a lesson here for would-be celebrity style-setters nonetheless.

Offering farmers handouts to ease the sting of tariffs could easily end up with calls for bailouts across much of the American economy.

Big tech companies are asking themselves where their responsibilities start and stop. Sorting that out will be complicated and may end up increasing their power.

The newly formed Main Street Investors Coalition says it wants to protect the rights of mom-and-pop investors. But its main complaint seems to be financial firms’ social consciousness.

Private-sector optimism is widespread, with risks from tariffs, deficits and global tensions outweighed by profit-plumping tax cuts and deregulation.

Exchange 106 tower is the centerpiece of a project meant to be a global finance center in Kuala Lumpur, but it has been overshadowed by charges of fraud.

The financing reflects the technology’s embrace by Beijing, which has created a better environment for companies to test it than in the West.

As Beijing encourages its corporate sector to buy up the technology to build its own national champions, Britain is joining other countries in applying a microscope to such deals.