Business | A postcard from the edge

Is this the end of Davos man?

Don’t bank on it

(220523) -- DAVOS, May 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Participants attend the welcome reception in the Congress Center for the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2022 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, May 22, 2022. The WEF 2022 Annual Meeting is held here from May 22 to 26. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)

May 26th 2022|Davos

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (wef) is a study in contrasts: business and politics, East and West, north and south, a few insiders cloistered in wintry Davos and the billions of outsiders on whose fate they pontificate. This time around, as thousands of the world’s movers and shakers belatedly descended on the Swiss ski resort between May 22nd and 26th, the big disparity was between the gloom about the state of the world and the joy of shoulder-rubbing in person (minus the snow) after a two-year pandemic hiatus.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Postcard from a world on edge”