{"id":43152,"date":"2019-01-25T08:27:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43152"},"modified":"2019-01-25T08:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:27:10","slug":"lessons-from-davos-everything-can-come-crashing-down-and-a-total-rejection-of-any-policy-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43152","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From Davos: Everything Can Come Crashing Down&#8230; And A Total Rejection Of Any Policy Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-01-25\/lessons-davos-everything-can-come-crashing-down-and-total-rejection-any-policy\">Lessons From Davos: Everything Can Come Crashing Down&#8230; And A Total Rejection Of Any Policy Alternatives<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Davos wraps up today, what have we got so far so far from the cockpit of globalisation? Warnings of rising nationalism. Fears of recession. Worries that everything could come tumbling down again. And a total rejection of any policy alternatives regardless. It\u2019s as if the Captain of the Titanic admits to the passengers early into the journey that the ship is sinkable, and indeed they will all drown horribly when it goes down, but then reassures everybody he\u2019s sticking to the same route towards the iceberg anyway.&nbsp;<strong>Before flying home in his private jet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exhibit A: SO ROSS<\/strong>. Billionaire US Commerce Secretary Ross coming across on TV as a \u201clet them eat cake\u201d kind of guy, when wondering why US government workers without pay don\u2019t just go to a loan-shark to get them through the never-ending shut-down. It was a double-whammy from Ross: he also said the US and China are \u201cmiles and miles\u201d away from an agreement on trade, meaning March madness looms, before being prodded to stay on message that it\u2019s all good, even if the real issues over Chinese reforms are where this particular ship is likely to sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exhibit B: SOROS<\/strong>.\u00a0Emmanuel Goldstein\u00a0George Soros boldly stating China\u2019s Xi Jinping is: \u201cthe most dangerous opponent of those who believe in the concept of open society\u2026Authoritarian regimes are proliferating all over the world and if they succeed, they will become totalitarian\u2026.I\u2019ve been concentrating on China, but open societies have many more enemies, Putin\u2019s Russia foremost among them\u2026.The first step is to recognize the danger\u2026But now comes the difficult part&#8230;The reality is that we are in a Cold War that threatens to turn into a hot one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons From Davos: Everything Can Come Crashing Down&#8230; And A Total Rejection Of Any Policy Alternatives As Davos wraps up today, what have we got so far so far from the cockpit of globalisation? Warnings of rising nationalism. Fears of recession. Worries that everything could come tumbling down again. 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