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Wednesday, January 23

23rd Jan - Special: Davos World Economic Forum

Last updated 15:00 GMT 27-Jan, latest at the bottom of the post.

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Live: Davos Day OneThe World / FT

Davos kicks offThe World / FT

Inside DavosDealBook / NYT

At Davos, Crisis Is New NormalDealBook / NYT

The Outsider’s Guide to DavosThe Reformed Broker

The downswing in Davos partiesFelix Salmon / Reuters

Billionaires From Ambani to Soros Examine Europe in DavosBB

Banks Too Big to Manage Find Davos Vows Too Hard to WinBB

Davies’ Davos diary: English at high altitudeThe A-list / FT

At Davos, Financial Leaders Debate Reform and Monetary PolicyDealBook / NYT

Reuters: A Way Forward – The Davos IssueThomson Reuters

Cohen Travels to Davos for Lesson in ‘Resilient Dynamism’BB
Steven A. Cohen didn’t let a mounting insider-trading investigation of his hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors stop him from attending the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Davos Diary: TuesdayThomson Reuters

Best of Davos Today: Russia’s image problemThomson Reuters

Davos Day 1: Dimon's Cuff Links, Schwarzman's Tone and SwagDealBook / NYT

Heard (and seen) around DavosThomson Reuters
Some of the most interesting, provocative and salient quotes we heard around the 2013 World Economic Forum

Dr Doom says quantitative easing will create zombie banks, firms and borrowersThe Guardian
Nouriel Roubini said at Davos that central bankers risked saddling the economy with debt-burdened QE addicts

Davos Diary: TuesdayThomson Reuters
Best of Davos Today: Russia’s image problemThomson Reuters
Davos Day 1: Dimon's Cuff Links, Schwarzman's Tone and SwagDealBook / NYT


UPDATE 1 
Davos Diary: WednesdayThomson Reuters

Best of Davos Today: Chronic unemployment threatens recoveryThomson Reuters
Unemployed or unemployable? World leaders and the business elite answer the question in highlights of Davos Today.

Live blog: Davos Day TwoThe World / FT
Coverage of Thursday’s highlights at the World Economic Forum will include contributions from Angela Merkel, David Cameron and Henry Kissinger, brought to you by the FT’s team of reporters and columnists in Davos and by Ben Fenton, Claire Jones and Lina Saigol in London.

Davos day 2: Press round-upThe World / FT

Davies’ Davos diary: What would you do with the G20?The A-list / FT
In London, the G20 has rather faded from view since Gordon Brown’s great event in Docklands in the spring of 2009, when a $1tn global stimulus was announced. (We await a final audit of this figure). It is hard to bring to mind any solid achievements to which it can claim credit since then.

Davos 2013: Abraaj looks forward to an Arab Summerbeyondbrics / FT
“Don’t be afraid of the Middle East.” That, in short, is the message of private equity investor Mustafa Abdel-Wadood at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.

Davos 2013: time to reform China’s state owned enterprisesbeyondbrics / FT
As the Chinese proverb says, you must cross a river one stone at a time. And, according to WEF participant John Quelch, dean of the Chinese European Institute of Business Studies (CEIBS), the time for some Chinese state owned enterprises to cross the first stone towards privatization will come in 2013.

Davos 2013: Mahindra Satyam, ready for the next round of M&Abeyondbrics / FT
The sales are on this month in Europe – and Mahindra Satyam wants to go shopping.

(audio) BizDaily: Davos SpecialBBC (mp3)
As the great and the good chew over the past few years of the economic downturn we hear from two of the men holding the purse strings of the global economy. Olivier Blanchard, Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund and Pascal Lamy, who heads up the World Trade Organisation

The meaninglessness testButtonwood / The Economist
The theme for this year's Davos conference is, apparently, resilient dynamism. That leads me to propose a rule; if you can plausibly change the words around, the phrase is meaningless. Dynamic resilience makes just as much, or little, sense. Indeed, it would be a better advertising slogan; New cornflakes with added dynamic resilience!

At Davos: Meetings Behind Closed DoorsDealBook / NYT
Between panel discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, some financial chieftans were spotted gathering for a private discussion.

Nouriel at Davos: Global Tail Risks RemainEconoMonitor
Speaking with CNN’s Poppy Harlow at Davos, RGE Chairman Nouriel Roubini reiterated the biggest outlying risks to the global economy: U.S. fiscal woes, the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, a potential China hard landing, and geopolitical risk in the Middle East.

You can lead people to Davos…The World / FT
The funny thing about the whole concept of the World Economic Forum bringing together all these different people from different countries and sectors, is that I’m not sure they actually talk to each other. 

Heard (and seen) around DavosThomson Reuters

Some of the most interesting, provocative and salient quotes we heard around the 2013 World Economic Forum



Dr Doom says quantitative easing will create zombie banks, firms and borrowersThe Guardian

Nouriel Roubini said at Davos that central bankers risked saddling the economy with debt-burdened QE addicts
  

Reuters TV coverage from the World Economic ForumThomson Reuters

UPDATE 2

Davos Man and his defects: The global-leadership industry needs re-engineeringThe Economist
The two most popular words in the business lexicon are probably “global” and “leadership”. Put them together and people in suits start to salivate.

Heard (and seen) around Davos: ThursdayThomson Reuters

Davos 2013: It’s not the trade barriers, it’s the supply chainsbeyondbrics / FT
Free trade warriors: stop wasting your time on battling trade tariffs from emerging markets. Streamlining your own supply chain is what you should focus on.

UPDATE 3 
Davies’ Davos diary: Hedging bets on a BrexitThe A-list / FT



Davos Day Three – press round-upThe World / FT



A Davos Q&A with Lord Paul BoatengThe World / FT


Davos Day 3The World / FT
an address by Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, and sessions looking at the challenges faced by, and presented by, the fast-changing Arab world. Reports from FT writers in Davos and by Ben Fenton, Lina Saigol and Lindsay Whipp in London.

UPDATE 4 
The TIME at Davos Debate: The Rewards of Mastering RiskTIME



Is the Scene At Davos Getting Old?TIME

Davos Diary: Thursday Thomson Reuters

Davos 2013: tackling corruption the unconventional waybeyondbrics / FT

At Davos: Goldman's Chief Bears a New LookDealBook / NYT
Chief executives often treat the World Economic Forum in Davos as a chance to air fresh ideas about business and economics. But for Lloyd C. Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, it was an opportunity to unveil a beard.
 
UPDATE 5

Davos Wisdom, 2013: Five Lessons from the Global ForumTIME

UPDATE 6 
How Iceland Overthrew The Banks: The Only 3 Minutes Of Any Worth From Davos ZH
"Why do we consider banks to be like holy churches?" is the rhetorical question that Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimson asks (and answers) in this truly epic three minutes of truthiness

A handy guide to Davos-speakReuters

Davos: Was the Mood Too Good to Be True?CNBC

Groupthink in Davos: The Financial Crisis Is OverBusinessweek



The Future of Davos: Is a Hipper World Forum On Its Way?TIME