‘The dirty little secret of Davos 2020 is they all need [Trump] to get re-elected. Nobody wants to say that out loud.’ That’s the Hoover Institution’s Niall Ferguson sharing his thoughts with Yahoo Finance this week regarding the World Economic Forum’s 50th annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses how a networked world operates, climate change, and how the US economy under President Trump has won over many skeptics.
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses President Trump, his successes, his previous visit to Davos in January 2016, and now the embrace of President Trump by the financial industry and their hope that President Trump will be reelected.
Who thought it possible? After months of blasting California Democratic officials for their failure to address the state’s “disgusting” homelessness crisis, President Trump seems to have had a sudden change of heart. He’s now reportedly looking to cooperate with an unlikely bedfellow — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) — to strike a deal that would send federal dollars and workers to support the city’s efforts to clean up the streets.
When the international banking and investment firm Goldman Sachs quizzed 160 of its clients attending its Global Strategy Conference in London last week, it learned that 139 of them think Donald Trump will win reelection in November. The word “triumph” appeared in its research note to its clients.
During her testimony in the House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearings last year, former National Security Council senior director Fiona Hill scolded U.S. representatives for believing and sometimes echoing Russian-inspired disinformation about alleged Ukrainian interference in our 2016 presidential election. She stated bluntly: “This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.”