Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pitched investors in Davos Thursday — via video — with an innovative offer: a government nanny of one’s own
Forget Davos, it’s Alfalfa time, baby. “That’s an annual black-tie gathering where current and past players in the nation’s capital invite corporate titans to join them for a dinner and satirical roasts,”
. “The Davos-Alfalfa pairing serves as a kind of unofficial launch of what is now a yearlong season of corporate and political networking among a certain set of the world’s most influential people.”1. Speaking truth to power is not the brief.
they now shrug rather than gasp. Most galling for the U.S. president: a 17-year-old is better at driving the day.That was made easier because going green is now profitable a lot of the time.Prince Charles had more political impact here than the whole U.K. government — and also more than former PM Theresa May, who didn’t let her brutal opinion of Davos-goers being “citizens of nowhere” stop her from taking their money .
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