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appalachiablue

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3. For sure, add the influence of powerful global oligarchs.**SEE ALSO...
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 03:08 PM
Jan 2024

Last edited Fri Jan 19, 2024, 03:43 PM - Edit history (1)

From today, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, Daily Kos:

- 'Super Rich CEOs: 'It won't be the end of the world if Trump Wins.' Daily Kos, Jan. 19, 2024.

- Photo: Jamie Dimon, Chairman & CEO of JPMorgan Chase, arrives to testify at a Senate Banking Committee hearing at the Hart Senate Office Bldg. Dec. 06, 2023, Wash., DC. The committee heard testimony from the largest financial institutions during an oversight hearing on Wall Street firms.
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The richest people in the world are enjoying the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year’s annual get-together began with an Oxfam report detailing how the 5 richest men in the word have more than doubled their wealth in the last 3 years. NBC reports that the 2024 presidential election has been one of the topics of conversation at the conference.

It turns out that while European elites are leery of another disastrous Trump administration, their wealthy counterparts in America seem unaffected, and in some cases supportive, of the possibility of a real-life fascist coming back into power. One anonymous “prominent U.S. business executive” told NBC, “I’m not sure Europeans understand how weak executive orders are. We have a justice system. Congress will probably be divided. It’s right to be cautious, but it won’t be the end of the world.”...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/19/2218238/-Super-rich-CEOs-say-they-aren-t-concerned-for-democracy-if-Trump-wins

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