“Kenneth Rogoff can pinpoint the moment he started to grow concerned Donald Trump would be the next U.S. president: It was when Rogoff’s fellow attendees at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting last January said it could never happen,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Rogoff: “A joke I’ve told 1,000 people in the months since leaving Davos is that the conventional wisdom of Davos is always wrong. No matter how improbable, the event most likely to happen is the opposite of whatever the Davos consensus is.”
“The repeated failure of business and political elites to predict what’s coming—last year, that included the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union—doesn’t strike those returning this month to the Swiss Alps as very funny. After a year in which political upsets roiled financial markets and killed off the careers of once-dominant Davos-going politicians, the concern for delegates attending this year’s meeting isn’t that their forecasts are often wrong, but that their worldview is.”
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