Using history as a guide, historian Niall Ferguson, told a conference that there won't be a U.S.-China trade deal this year, that the probability of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) becoming the Democratic presidential nominee is not priced into the market, and before New Year's Day, the stock market could experience a sell off similar to the one a year ago.

In today’s footloose world of work, talent retention and attraction has attained greater significance. A 1996 Washington Post article by now-famous Malcolm Gladwell, then a lowly staff writer, explored the impact of General Dynamics’ abrupt departure from Rochester in 1971. Gladwell noted that the company relocated only a “few dozen carefully selected specialists and executives,” then told the stories of the smart, motivated people left behind.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on course to win a majority of 68 in parliament at the Dec. 12 election, according to a model from pollsters YouGov that accurately predicted the 2017 election.

As I watched “The Irishman” a few weeks ago in a Manhattan movie theater I felt an ache, a kind of grief sneaking up on me, and toward the end I thought I knew why. I realized: I am watching John Ford’s “Cheyenne Autumn.” I am watching a great artist say goodbye to a world he knew, the world in which he’d risen, a particular kind of America.