financially elite

The fact that charter schools are a significant contributor to the district's deficit indicates the financial elites' motivation for funding and advocating for charter schools in the first place. That is, the schools were meant to serve as a mechanism not to improve children's educational outcomes, but to attack public ...

While the financial elite, and conservatives alike have been processing and responding to the news of a new tariff on steel and aluminum – Trump did something even more unexpected. While many GOP lawmakers have decried the tariff as a government imposition into the free market, Trump announced ...

Charges, say, that conniving foreign countries have stolen our jobs, or that this country's financial elite have betrayed America with free-trade deals that have lined their pockets while stealing the livelihoods of American workers. And that it can all be fixed by someone determined to put our national interest ...

For that reason, the financial 'elites' — wealthy individuals, pension funds, college endowments and the like — have great trouble meekly signing up for a financial product or service that is available as well to people investing only a few thousand dollars. This reluctance of the rich normally prevails even ...

Enlarge / A visual representation of bitcoin is displayed in front of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange website on February 12, 2018 in Paris. Chesnot / Getty Images · reader comments 246. Share this story. Further Reading. European bankers scoff at bitcoin for its risk, huge energy inefficiency. After a ...

Browne and I met in Dubai, where he was attending the World Government Summit — a conference at a swanky resort where the global political and financial elite meet to discuss big-picture issues like education and the future of technology. When I asked him about American politicians who deny that ...

Reading mainstream coverage of President Trump's trip to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland this week, you'd think he were an outsider coming to shake-up the global elites that frequent the annual summit—an anti-establishment “kid from Queens”, as the New York Times put it.

... Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberals have made clear that their priority is securing an exemption for Canada; or as the Globe and Mail, the traditional mouthpiece of the country's financial elite, put it shortly after Trump's election in 2016, ensuring Canadian capitalism is inside “Trump's walls.”.

Young by Italian political standards and ambitious, Renzi was initially the darling of the industrial and financial elite, and was dubbed the "Demolition Man" for his pledge to do away with a creaking old establishment. But the slow pace of the recovery undermined the credibility of his reform effort, and he ...