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World Economic Forum - Davos 2009

Davos diary

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Chris Giles and Peter Thal Larsen

Published: February 9 2009 17:26 | Last updated: February 9 2009 17:26

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, media editor

For an event with the confident mission of improving the state of the world, this year’s World Economic Forum was marked by remarkable uncertainty. No one quite asked why the collected brains of Davos hadn’t see the global financial crisis coming, but the question hung over the crowd like a thick mountain fog.

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