An ironic contradiction is likely to define the global economic community’s convocation in Davos this week as it awaits Donald Trump’s inauguration. There has not been so much anxiety about US global leadership or about the sustainability of market-oriented democracy at any time in the past half-century. Yet with markets not only failing to swoon as predicted but rallying strongly after both the Brexit vote and after Mr Trump’s victory, the animal spirits of business are running hot.
在等待唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)就職典禮之際,一個頗具諷刺意味的矛盾很可能將定義本周在達沃斯召開的全球經濟共同體大會。對于美國全球領導力或市場導向民主制度的可持續性,過去半個世紀都未曾出現過如此多的焦慮感。然而,在英國公投退歐以及特朗普勝選之后,全球金融市場非但未像預測那樣暴跌,反而出現了強勁反彈,企業的“動物精神”正在猛烈燃燒。