Back in mid-January Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, offered up his first thoughts on the populist wave sweeping across the globe (we covered it here). And, once you’ve recovered from the laughing fit inspired by the irony of a bunch of billionaires sitting around discussing their displeasure with the […]
Bill Clinton: ‘Nationalism’ Will Take Us To ‘The Edge of our Destruction’…
Former President Bill Clinton, while speaking at the left-leaning Brookings Institution for his first major appearance since Hillary lost the 2016 election, issued a stern warning to President Trump and his supporters, according to Politico. “People who claim to want the nation-state are actually trying to have a pan-national movement to institutionalize separatism and division […]
Lavrov vs. McCain: Is Russia an Enemy?…
The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be “be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism.” McCain was followed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who called for a “post-West world order.” Russia has “immense potential” for that said Lavrov, […]
IMF’s Lagarde Urges Wealth Redistribution To Fight Populism…
As we scoffed oveernight, who better than a handful of semi, and not so semi, billionaires – perplexed by the populist backlash of the past year – to sit down and discuss among each other how a “squeezed and Angry” middle-class should be fixed…
Is the Party Over for Bushism?…
For Trump’s nomination represents not only a rejection of their legacy but a repudiation of much of post-Cold War party dogma…