(Markus Schreiber/AP)With Joanie GreveTHE BIG IDEA: “America is open for business,” President Trump declared last January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. -- Rising fears about the state of the world’s biggest economies are likely to preoccupy the Davos crowd as much as anything else. “Because of the Democrats intransigence on Border Security and the great importance of Safety for our Nation, I am respectfully cancelling my very important trip to Davos,” Trump tweeted two weeks ago. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)WEST WING INTRIGUE:-- A new tell-all book about the Trump White House depicts the president’s staffers as “absolutely out of control” while serving an erratic leader easily bored by policy. …“Perhaps the book’s most cinematic chapter of chaos is ‘The Mooch Is Loose,’ a reconstruction of Anthony Scaramucci’s 11 days as White House communications director.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2019 13:58 UTC