The rich pricks from the Predator Class are meeting in Davos, Switzerland right now for the World Economic Forum, but I can't remember where the global Labor Forum meets.
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At Davos, sometimes sorry is the hardest wordBy BRADLEY S. KLAPPER – 40 minutes ago
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — At Davos, it seems, sorry is the hardest word.
Amid the profound pain of the financial meltdown enveloping the globe, this week's World Economic Forum might have been expected to feature apologies — even a massive mea culpa from the movers and shakers of the financial community that created the crisis.
There have been plenty of excuses, recriminations, hand-wringing and analysis. But scant few have owned up to the pervasive effects of bad business decisions that cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and brought the world economy to its knees.
"There's a tremendous arrogance about the whole process," Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told The Associated Press. The top bankers "think that it just happened, that it was nobody's fault. But they should feel sorry."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hrqk3TDUggukkjwuFzcwwDUXqqaQD96127U00 Message to Davos: Keep Capitalism Published: January 27, 2009
The world is in the midst of a financial crisis. But it does not have to turn into a crisis of capitalism in which government intervention and protectionism swamp the creative potential of free markets.
The political and business leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos should make it their goal to prevent this. Otherwise, rising resentment among the swelling armies of unemployed and others suffering from the global economic downturn could sweep away much of the good with the bad — and make the world still poorer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/business/economy/28views.html