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(The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.)The World Economic Forum gets underway Monday in Davos, Switzerland Tuesday as hundreds of world leaders, business titans, and politicians will gather to privately discuss the issues of the day and make recommendations to reduce climate change, hunger, and poverty.If you’re not concerned about the WEF’s doings, read RedState writer Nick Arama’s excellent article from Monday, “Michael Shellenberger Drops a Chilling Thread About the WEF That Gives Elon Musk the ‘Willies.’”But how do all these leaders get there? Do they fly commercial then take...

It also wouldn’t be news if you were one of the more than 100 people — including employees at investment banks like Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., along with congressional staff members and trade groups — that received this market-moving information 19 hours before the public. Brian Gross, a member of the Fed’s congressional liaison staff, distributed the March 19-20 minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday Washington time. The release was “entirely accidental,” Ms. Smith said. “This was a list of professional contacts that one individual had,” she said.