All posts tagged: Goldman Sachs

The Tories are right, we should stop the boats. Just not the ones they’re talking about

The Tories are right, we should stop the boats. Just not the ones they’re talking about

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Illustration: Bill Bragg/The Guardian” fifu-data-src=”https://i2.wp.com/www.skepticsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/707754f6e838afa0df27baf0473faae5.jpeg?ssl=1″ data-src=”https://i2.wp.com/www.skepticsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/707754f6e838afa0df27baf0473faae5.jpeg?ssl=1″/> Illustration: Bill Bragg/The Guardian Rishi Sunak is in thrall to just two syllables: small boats. Plunging wages, extortionate heating bills, collapsing public services – such trivia does not detain the UK’s first Goldman Sachs prime minister from his Peloton. But small boats crossing the Channel? These he will vow to stop, fulminating in speeches, plastering the words across his lectern as if in a deadly pandemic. To pull it off, he is yet again this week burning through his dwindling political capital, just like those tech venture capitalists he adores. So he’s declaring Rwanda safe for refugees – which, according to our supreme court, is like claiming black is white – while handing Rwanda hundreds of millions of pounds (its president was yesterday promising a refund). Our chief lawmaker promised this week to break international law and to strip asylum seekers of court protection – or, as he termed it, “the legal merry-go-round”. Denying the wronged their rights is how the British establishment created the Post Office scandal – …

Trump’s ghost stalks Davos – POLITICO

Trump’s ghost stalks Davos – POLITICO

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DAVOS, Switzerland — World leaders gathered together in the Swiss Alps this week are nervous that Donald Trump will be even more anti-global if he returns as United States president. And they have good reason to be wary. If polls prove correct, the front-runner for the Republican nomination is set to be crowned winner of the Iowa caucus — the first stage of the U.S. presidential primary process — on Monday night. Meanwhile across the Atlantic in Davos, power brokers are gathering over canapés and drinks for the opening event of this year’s World Economic Forum. Although Trump won’t be present at Davos, the specter of a comeback by the populist firebrand is set to stalk the halls and loom over the backroom chatter at the annual gathering of corporates and politicians.  The prospect of Trump 2.0 has spooked many in the international community. “If we are to draw lessons from history, looking at the way he ran the first four years of his mandate, it’s clearly a threat,” said Christine Lagarde, president of the European …

Trump’s Loyalists, Lapdogs, and Cronies

Trump’s Loyalists, Lapdogs, and Cronies

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When Donald Trump first took office, he put a premium on what he called “central casting” hires—people with impressive résumés who matched his image of an ideal administration official. Yes, he brought along his share of Steve Bannons and Michael Flynns. But there was also James Mattis, the decorated four-star general who took over the Defense Department, and Gary Cohn, the Goldman Sachs chief operating officer who was appointed head of the National Economic Council, and Rex Tillerson, who left one of the world’s most profitable international conglomerates to become secretary of state. Explore the January/February 2024 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More Trump seemed positively giddy that all of these important people were suddenly willing to work for him. And although his populist supporters lamented the presence of so many swamp creatures in his administration, establishment Washington expressed pleasant surprise at the picks. A consensus had formed that what the incoming administration needed most was “adults in the room.” To save the country from …

Black Success, White Backlash – The Atlantic

Black Success, White Backlash – The Atlantic

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For more than half a century, I have been studying the shifting relations between white and Black Americans. My first journal article, published in 1972, when I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, was about Black political power in the industrial Midwest after the riots of the late 1960s. My own experience of race relations in America is even longer. I was born in the Mississippi Delta during World War II, in a cabin on what used to be a plantation, and then moved as a young boy to northern Indiana, where as a Black person in the early 1950s, I was constantly reminded of “my place,” and of the penalties for overstepping it. Seeing the image of Emmett Till’s dead body in Jet magazine in 1955 brought home vividly for my generation of Black kids that the consequences of failing to navigate carefully among white people could even be lethal. Explore the November 2023 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More For …

Atlantic Festival announces Hillary Rodham Clinton

Atlantic Festival announces Hillary Rodham Clinton

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The Atlantic is today announcing new speakers––including former Secretary of State and United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton––appearing at the 15th annual Atlantic Festival, taking place on Thursday, September 28, and Friday, September 29, at The Wharf in Washington, D.C. Clinton will be in conversation with The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, discussing existential threats to democracy. Goldberg will also interview Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Also announced today are an interview with Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra with senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II; and a conversation led by Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder and president of Emerson Collective, with the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III. The Atlantic is pleased to welcome and announce CBS News as the exclusive broadcast media partner for The Atlantic Festival. CBS News journalists will moderate a number of conversations at the festival, and the network will have a presence throughout the event. The festival’s two days will feature interviews with the …