Davos 2010: The art of the veiled threat
No one has perfected the veiled threat as well as Larry Summers, president Obama’s chief economic adviser. It was on fine display at the World Economic Forum on Saturday.
He was [...]
Davos: Cameron says immediate Tory spending cuts would be modest
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!• Conservative leader: action swift but not extensive• Sources deny Cameron rowing back on pledge to tackle deficitDavid Cameron gave a clear sign today that Conservative spending cuts designed to prevent Britain facing a Greek-style debt crisis would begin [...]
Martin Wolf in Davos: Will the will to take on difficult issues disappear?
Martin Wolf is writing for the FT’s Davos blog. Here is a copy of his third entry.
Here are further glimpses of the Davos kaleidoscope.
First, my friend Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy, gave me a new acronym on the global recovery. It is LU…
Davos 2010: The G20 and the IMF
In a recent speech, Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England railed against the inconsistencies of national recovery strategies, saying that, “a present there is no political mechanism for [...]
Davos 2010: The Bard, the buck and the beast
I had an ulterior motive last night when I went to a dinner on Shakespeare and the crisis. I thought the session, led by Carol and Ken Adelman, founders of [...]
Food for thought | Alan Rusbridger
Davos: The World Economic Forum has much to ponder, so chef Dan Barber served up a good course of intelligent thinkingGood and bad Davos. Good – inviting Dan Barber, the chef and owner of Blue Hill restaurant in Greenwich Village, New York. I’ve never eaten there, but if he cooks as well as he talks [...]
Darling tells bankers: ‘Don’t feel sorry for yourselves’
Chancellor holds clear-the-air talks with eight UK and foreign-owned banks at World Economic Forum in DavosAlistair Darling told the City’s top bankers today to stop feeling sorry for themselves and instead work with the government to create a stronger financial system.The chancellor held clear-the-air talks with eight UK and foreign-owned banks at the meeting of [...]
George Osborne and Richard Thaler | We can make you behave
Davos: Our plan is to embed the insights gleaned from behavioural economics throughout governmentWhat have we learned from the financial crisis? That’s the question on everyone’s lips here at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, where we are taking part in a panel discussion with some of the world’s leading behavioural thinkers, including Professor [...]
Lamy’s lament on trade liberalisation | Larry Elliott
Davos: There may be the will to build global institutions to run the world economy, but let’s get real: nation states still ruleFinancial markets. Greenhouse gases. Currencies. Fish. The World Economic Forum in Davos has had sessions on all these pressing issues this week.The problems are easy to identify. Too little regulation of the banks [...]
Martin Wolf in Davos: The French world order
Martin Wolf is writing for the FT’s Davos blog. Here is a copy of his second entry.
Another weird day has passed. But all days at Davos are weird. One never knows what is going on, except for the fact that, wherever one is, one would be far better of…