The Davos Disconnect
Six charts show why the people who are changing today’s world don’t care about the World Economic Forum
Residential buildings stand illuminated on the town skyline ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Never before has the gap between Davos Man and the real world yawned so widely.
The top executives, financiers, academics and politicians making their way up the mountain to the World Economic Forum will be talking a lot about such non-establishment leaders as President-elect Donald Trump – whose inauguration in Washington occurs on the event’s last day – France’s National Front chief Marine Le Pen and Italian populist Beppe Grillo of the Five Star Movement.