Richard Edelman ought to be a big hit in Davos, Switzerland, telling some of the most powerful people in the world how much they are mistrusted.
Government and business leaders have seen a precipitous drop-off in trust, as measured by the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer, a survey of more than 30,000 people in 25 countries.
With Europe’s debt crisis threatening the global economy, the U.S. Federal Reserve always looking for new ways to hold interest rates down to historic lows, and job growth that can’t catch up to job destruction, it’s a wonder anybody trusts government or business at all.
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