The stock market continues to do well and GDP growth is strong, while nearly every other measure of economic activity has stagnated or is in deep decline. Why?

Fareed Zakaria said that as the Middle East grew quieter the Chinese front grew more discordant. “In this arena Trump has lurched from threat to retreat to confusion,” he said.

Over the past year, Virginia has lost jobs in four sectors. Not surprisingly, the biggest of those are federal jobs — 8,700 in all. What might be surprising is that these don’t account for the ...