This year's World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos was livened up and more newsworthy thanks to the attendance of the US President, writes John Redwood, chief global strategist at Charles Stanley.
As a former critic of the international governing elite, President Donald Trump addressed a room with more than a few sceptics of Trump-politics, and the sense was an exchange of two very different ways of viewing world trade, economies and politics. Trump told us Davos that while he will put 'America first', that does not mean America alone. He explained the what he was doing to boost US jobs, growth and investment, and told the world that the USA was truly open for business. Trump is hungry for more projects, more jobs, and more money coming into the USA, setting out what a differe...
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