One particularly caustic attendee described this year’s Davos as a “reunion of losers”.
- Ben Wright
- The Sydney Morning Herald
That might seem an odd thing to say given the Swiss mountain resort must have housed the greatest concentration of millionaires and billionaires anywhere on the planet over the past week.
But he was alluding to how tarnished the company brands adorning the shop fronts along the promenade have become over the past year and the extent to which the mood of recent meetings has since proved misguided.
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