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Hello and welcome to the Trump in Davos edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance

news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon, joined by Anna Shemansky and Jordan Weissman.

And in Davos, Switzerland, or DeVos, I guess we should call it this week.

We have Jacob Weisberg. Hello, Felix. Hello,

money people. You are right there in the thick of it all. This is the year that Davos, which has always

been this conference, which was like full of wonky economists and finance ministers and

high-minded talk about the state of the world just completely got obliterated first by us

Nirstorm and then by Donald Trump. He kind of took over every conversation, right? Yeah, it was

clearly the only headline that was going to come out of Dallas this year was about

whatever Trump said.

And in that sense, it was very shrewd, you know, that everyone assumed that Davos represented

a good part of what Trump and Trump's constituency is hostile to, i.e. globalization.

But with Steve Bannon gone, there was nothing

preventing him from coming here, and he sold his message pretty effectively. I mean, he gave

a very conciliatory speech without a lot of substance, but he, you know, he, I think the story is,

it's going to be largely a positive one about his visit. And in fairness, Davos probably is a kind

of civilizing influence on Donald Trump. It's probably a good thing for him to come here,

speak to some other world leaders, behave like a

normal human being to some extent. So, you know, I don't know that it's a disaster for anybody.

So he was always like the avatar of everything that Davos wasn't. You know, he's the anti-trade agreements, anti-immigration, anti-equality,

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