Today's Update! - Davos arrives as world on verge of nervous breakdown

The rich and powerful keep coming back each year to Europe's highest town to breathe in the global elite air and plod through the snow.

This year there is no shortage of global wounds that require bandaging, if not tourniquets, at the 45th Davos meeting.

Do-gooding captains of industry and government will travel up a Swiss mountain this week for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos with one hefty task on their minds: how to make the world a better place.

Dozens of heads of state and 2,500 business leaders, along with cultural emissaries and experts from across the entire field of human endeavor, will pile into the Alpine ski town — for five days of workshops, speeches and fast-and-furious networking starting Tuesday night.

Former Mexican president Felipe Calderón said "They also need to boost growth at a time of growing economic uncertainty."
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Last Edited by Nikola Tesla on 01/23/2015 12:28 PM