Time.com has assembled a photo gallery of my Ten Things I Learned at Davos. As I worked on the list on the plane home Sunday, I realized that I really hadn’t learned much at all. I had to do a bit of padding, and recycling from this blog. And now I’m wondering why the heck my employer sent me all the way to Switzerland to learn so …
I’m in the Zurich airport waiting for my flight home, and can’t think of anything better to do than post more thrilling photos of my trip. I might post a little more about Davos on Monday but after that I promise I’ll shut about it.
New techniques in serving champagne at the closing gala
The Google party at the Belvedere hotel
The
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I realize that this photo is a blurry mess, but it may be the only visual record of one of the most surreal Davos moments ever. Somewhere behind those backs of people’s heads are Cherie Booth Blair (you know, Tony’s wife), pretending to be an intestinal worm, chasing (while wearing boots with three-inch heels) after a bunch of Davos …
Here’s my final CapitalistCast from Davos. It’s the most content-free yet! The folks in New York have been bugging me to be more like Ana Marie Cox and Mark Halperin and impart actual information about the day to come. But by the time you watch this, the day in Davos will already be mostly or entirely over. Plus I’m just shallow, and …
The view from outside the Panasia Gallery in Davos Thursday night
Yeah, that’s Rick Stengel in the middle of the picture. The event was the Time cocktail party last night. Good crowd. No heads of state that I was aware of. But there was a head of a state (New Jersey Gov. John Corzine). I spent a while talking to Mario Moretti Polegato, …
Last year, when Time‘s Board of Economists gathered for its annual debate in Davos (and no, Time doesn’t really have a Board of Economists on an ongoing basis, we just gather them together every year here at the World Economic Forum), economist and superblogger Nouriel Roubini was the only gloomy voice in the crowd. As Peter Gumbel …
This one was taped in a Davos parking lot. With some camerawork and other excellent assistance from Mrs. Curious Capitalist.
When Al Gore talks, Bono and Tom Friedman listen
This morning’s big attraction here in Davos was a breakfast in which Bono and Al Gore were supposed to talk about “Combining Solutions to Extreme Poverty and the Climate Crisis.”
Bono noted up front that there’s competition as well as combination: “We have noticed that interest from …
So I’ve been too overwhelmed with dead-tree stuff to report much here today. But I did at least take a few pictures:
A morning shot of, uh, some mountain. Maybe the
Jakobshorn?
Davos by night, and a fine Alabama-made vehicle (go American exports!)
Alice Waters, talking about the fine dinner of local goat and stuff she put together
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Here goes. I know, I’ve got to work on the whole centering-my-face in the screen thing. I should add that Ned Phelps, whom I just met, is a very entertaining guy. Not that I really captured that (or tried to) in the video. But here’s a little sample. George Soros has an opinion piece in today’s FT headlined “The worst market crisis in 60 …
That’s Becky Sharp of CNBC and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, wishing a Swiss Army helicopter would stop buzzing them. I was supposed to go on a little later with Andrew Sorkin of the NYT, but we got bumped by stock market events in the U.S. I’m frantically trying to finish a piece for dead-tree Time at the moment. Will …
I really can’t think of a better place to spend a global financial semi-meltdown than in the cozy bar/cocktail lounge of the Parkhotel Silvretta in Klosters (a sweet little resort town just down the hill from bigger, less-charming Davos). Outside it’s snowing. Inside it’s warm, and I’m sitting in a comfy chair, partaking of an excellent …