World Economic Forum

Basics
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Biden warns Davos: Inequality is threatening ‘liberal international order’

With 48 hours left as vice president of the United States, Joe Biden delivered his final speech yesterday to an assembly of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people. “The top 1 percent is not carrying their weight,” he said. And while “external actors” pose a threat to democracy, inequality is “undermining support for the liberal international order from inside.”

Year in review
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Voices of the Humanosphere 2016: Oxfam keeps warning of widening gap between rich and poor

The World Economic Forum takes place again at Davos in a few weeks. The most newsworthy and powerful message that usually comes out of this confab of the rich and powerful is not some speech by Bono or Bill Gates but rather an Oxfam report that reminds everyone, as they have for the last few years, that less than a hundred people on the planet today own more than half the world’s population. Crazy, right? Our podcast from last year’s warning.

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