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Davos serendipity: Shuttle buses
One of the benefits – and pleasures of Davos – is the chance conversations that strike up among strangers, either in the fringes of meetings or on the shuttle buses that ferry people around town. On...
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The great and the good are gathered at Davos this week and “committed to improving the state of the world”. But what else could they have done with the money spent on entry to this exclusive event? The...
View ArticleDavos debate: China’s place in the world
FTChinese.com editor-in-chief Lifen Zhang says the focus is not just on China’s economic power but its foreign relations. He also says Chinese business remains cautious about spending its cash...
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Davos audience: lapping up Rouhani
Simply by coming to the World Economic Forum, President Hassan Rouhani of Iran is sending a message. He is the first Iranian president to have spoken in Davos for a decade. In a public speech at the...
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Davos doubt: Brazil’s blanket bullishness
By Joe Leahy in São Paulo Team Brazil began its charm offensive in Davos on Thursday with Finance Minister Guido Mantega reasserting the primary role in global economic growth of the so-called Brics,...
View ArticleGuest post: Corporate trust deficit
By Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive officer of Save the Children This years findings on the low levels of trust in government, with business faring a little better, provoked a serious debate,...
View ArticleDavos drama: Ukraine PM left out in the cold
FT senior foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman reports on his meeting with Ukraine prime minister Mykola Azarov who has not been invited to the main events at Davos. They discuss the violence in...
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Davos: What stage is Dimon at on the Kübler-Ross model?
According to the Kübler-Ross model, there are five stages of grief: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Jamie Dimon still seems a long way from acceptance. The JPMorgan Chase chairman...
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Davos thoughts: Secular stagnation
Lawrence Summers (c) WEF On Thursday, I moderated a fascinating lunch-time discussion on “secular stagnation” with Lawrence Summers, former US treasury secretary, who has recently propounded this idea....
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Davos diplomacy: Ukraine left outside
Mykola Azarov (c) Getty Images How humiliating for a political leader to be in Davos – but to be kept away from the Congress Centre itself. That is the fate that has befallen Mykola Azarov, the prime...
View ArticleDavos press: what to read this morning
By Lindsay Whipp We launch into day two of the World Economic Forum with a grim backdrop of intensifying violence in Ukraine, a state of emergency in Thailand and no progress in the Syria peace talks...
View ArticleDavos guest post: Syria finally on the agenda
By Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive Save the Children The world has a habit of kicking off while Davis convenes and in past years I’ve been dismayed at the way the formal agenda carried on seemingly...
View ArticleDavos leaders: Rouhani pledges to “normalise” relations with US and Europe
Courtesy of FastFT: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is giving a high-profile keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.Read more
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Davos debate focuses on eurozone QE
There is no doubt what the big issue is at the World Economic Forum on Thursday – the European Central Bank decision on quantitative easing. An early panel with a largely-US cast list was supposed to...
View ArticleHarvard vs Cameron: Professors defend encryption
The proposals by David Cameron, the UK prime minister, to criminalise forms of encryption that would block intelligence services from reading messages from terrorist suspects have been criticised in...
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Art world’s shady dealings under scrutiny at Davos
Regulation is needed in the global art market because it is vulnerable to money laundering, tax evasion, trading on inside information and price manipulation, an FT Weekend lunch in Davos was told....
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Salesforce who? Party heralds dawn of new era
If you want to get a sense of where power is shifting in the business world, tracking the Davos parties is a good place to start. A decade ago it was the banking bashes which were the glitziest and...
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Real world intrudes on Davos
(c) WEF Holding the World Economic Forum in a ski resort in the Alps sounds like an eccentric decision. In fact, the choice of Davos as a location for the WEF is very clever. It is such a pain to get...
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Uber and Kodak: ghosts at disruption feast
You cannot book an Uber car in Davos. That is no surprise, given that most World Economic Forum delegates prefer to take their own chauffeured limousines or the WEF’s free shuttle service. More...
View ArticleThose Davos clichés in full
I am often asked what is the “mood” of Davos? I always find this question hard to answer – possibly because it is meaningless. However, after four days in the Congress Centre, or trudging from hotel to...
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