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Davos Elites See an Abyss: The Populist Surge Upending the Status Quo
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times


New York Times, January 19, 2017
Posted: January 30th, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/business/dealbook/world-e...

For the investors and market-movers at the annual World Economic Forum [in Davos, Switzerland], a threat lurks. At cocktail parties where the Champagne flows, financiers have expressed bewilderment over the rise of populist groups that are feeding a backlash against globalization. The world order has been upended. As the United States retreats from the promise of free trade, China is taking up the mantle. The stark shift leaves investors trying to assess the new risk and opportunities in the global economy. This is the first time there is absolutely no consensus, said William F. Browder ... who has been coming to Davos for 21 years. Everyone is looking into the abyss. The religion of the global elite - free trade and open markets - is under attack, and there has been a lot of hand-wringing, [but] little agreement on how to deal with it. The biggest concern? Finding a way to make the people who are driving populist movements feel like they are part of the global economic pie that Davos participants have created and largely own. Ian Bremmer, the president of Eurasia Group, a political-research firm, offered his advice: Elites wont be able to manage populism until they stop seeing it as a threat and start seeing it as a symptom. If that is the case, Davos has, so far, made little progress. Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba in China, offered his view of the problem in the United States. Americans, he said, do not distribute the money properly.

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