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Davos helped launder Trump as a misunderstood “business realist.” This year, the bill came due. As Trump rambled about Greenland and NATO, Mark Carney warned of a rupture in the world order, and called on middle powers to hold together what America built but Trump is unraveling. iPINIONS dissects the humiliation, the irony, and the… Read more.
The World Economic Forum at Davos The annual gathering of business and political elites at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Switzerland, concluded yesterday. However, this event reeks of hypocrisy. Forum discussions do little more than emit the CO2 attendees continually pledge to reduce. Especially notable are their backslapping pledges to combat climate change… Read more.
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is an annual gabfest that attracts A-list heads of state, international financiers, academics, philanthropists, politicians, and celebrities. Therefore, it speaks volumes that the only redeeming news from this year’s gathering (January 22-25) is that someone finally had the balls to tell them what hypocrites they are. That daring… Read more.
Donald Trump spent most of his career criticizing the World Economic Forum in Davos as an annual gathering of clueless global elites. But his criticism always reeked of resentment because he never received one of its coveted invitations. Bear this in mind. President Donald Trump put on his salesman’s hat on Friday during his address… Read more.
Davos is a place where corporate titans, international bankers, world leaders, and a smattering of celebrity do-gooders gather annually for invigorating gabfests about the impact of world developments on their businesses, personal wealth, and collective conscience. And, where politicians, celebrities, and token guests from the Third World change from year to year, the other attendees… Read more.
I have made something of a ritual of ridiculing the American masters of the universe who fly to Davos, Switzerland around this time each year to give lectures at the World Economic Forum on what it takes to get rich like them. Because they were always so full of self-congratulatory hot air. Unfortunately, since the record of their… Read more.
