How Trump dominated Davos

It was clear that the event would not live up to its official theme: the spirit of dialogue. 

The annual event, now in its 56th year, had record attendance. “It has been the biggest, most exciting Davos ever. We had 70 heads of state and almost 1,000 CEOs,” 

Even Dimon, arguably the most outspoken executive on Wall Street and a self-avowed globalist, would not be drawn into criticising the US president’s foreign policy.

Dimon, who took the stage at Davos on Wednesday for the first time in years, instead took a swipe at the “liberal media” and its need for a “headline” as well as the WEF itself.

https://www.ft.com/content/49286969-ab39-4cbd-bb18-f563cc2eb31b

How Trump wields and uses attention. He’s a master at it.

Attention; the world’s most valuable resource. The notion now is that at every single moment when you are competing for someone’s attention, you are competing against literally every piece of content ever produced.

Joe Biden just terrified of an interview going badly. And Trump and Vance — they were all over the place, including in places very hostile to them. Vance had a ton of interviews that went badly. But they were everywhere.

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/how-trump-wields-and-uses-attentionhes.html