Page 16 - Gronna News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

More like a normal president. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column this week and let's get started. you just heard my take, let's see what my panel thinks. in london, the editor in chief of "the economist" and the next war, the growing threat of conflict in today's world. ronna is in rome, cnn's global economic analyst. with me here in new york is ian bremer, the president of the rash yeah group. let me ask you, you were at davos, i saw you there. the mood was buoyant because of

Deserve some credit. i'm not sure donald trump deserves quite as much credit as he was taking but yes, the global economy is absolutely buoyant and going to grow and as a result, there isn't a short term, a lot of sense of u for . euphoria. people breathe the sigh of relief that donald trump there was trump on best behavior, trump with the tell promeprompt that reinforced the relief and euphoria you had. >> ronna, the best line i know about davos is i think jamie diamond, the ceo that says davos is where billionaires it will millionaires how the middle class feels. the billionaires and million...

Well, they are not very -- they are hostile to trump, openly hostile. did they change their minds? >> they are openly hostile to many of the things trump does but delighted the fact their share prices are soaring and the american economy is booming and i was truck to the degree european ceos were happy to say the tax cut was great for them, too. i think ceos were quick to turn their tune and i thought there was a remarkably quick shift in opinion there. i agree that much of it is not justified and hopefully we can get on to that. the mood there was remarkably upbeat. >> fascinating. we're goin...

And we are back with the economist in london and rome and ian here in new york. ronna, you look at the number of sessions and much of the talk at davos this year, it was about something else that people are actually very worried about. explain. >> absolutely. a.i., big data, the digital revolution was the hot topic and what is interesting to me, it's been that way many years at davos but this year you got the sense it was going way beyond the tech sector and going to every kind of business model. i spoke to an insurance executive that told me sensors in cars and homes would enable his industry...

Is the united states losing out in the key sectors? again, the surface, the american boom makes that seem not true but what's your sense? >> choinese growth is adding moe to the economy and that continues to be the case every year. also, chinese technology driven by the state as opposed to the united states. trump is talking about manufacturing jobs. he's talking about coal. he's not talking about investing in a.i. i think both of those really worry the davos group because the two dominant forces today are opposed to the multilateral developmental approach. you got libertarians in silicon vall...