The hypocrisy of the Davos set is finally being exposed | Zoe Williams

The emperors of neoliberalism claim to be addressing inequality, but stay silent on fair wages. Now capitalism is having to face its contraditions

Financial elites, huh? Can’t live with them, can’t stop obsessing about their snowsuits. Still rocking from the revelations elicited from Donald Trump by Piers Morgan on ITV at the weekend – that he has met Morgan before and definitely remembers him, that he is super successful in everything he does, and that he feels love for all people – we greet the week with a significant shift of the intersection point between politics and money.

Rally Trump was trenchantly anti-globalisation; Victory Trump was savagely anti-elites. Campaigning in green ink and governing in poison pen, he never essayed that Clintonian Davos sheen, the smooth, luxurious world where billionaires were doing everybody else a favour and heads of state moved respectfully among them by invitation.

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