POINT OF ORDER
TIM COHEN: Soros reminds Davos of slippery slopes
For the first time, every head of state of a Group of Seven country, bar one, gave a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Sixty others visited the forum, notably Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was an amazing gathering. Yet to all this strutting the stage with due pomp and splendour, there was also the antidote: George Soros. Every year Soros gives a talk at the forum that in some ways constitutes a flip side to its grandeur. It is a small group of eclectics; no one checks your name at the door; the speech is not preceded by a band playing Hail to the Chief; and it is all very informal. Soros spoke on the evening preceding the arrival of another Manhattan billionaire, US President Donald Trump, and in a way upstaged him with a speech the breadth of which you sense Trump would struggle to comprehend, let alone write. As he normally does, Soros went on a kaleidoscopic tour of the ills of the world, some of which he is trying to set right through his Open ...
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