Check out "Holding the Financial Beasts at Bay" and other notes from Davos

Dear Friends, all these are following on our Newsweek cover story last week about Christine Lagarde and the IMF:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/imf-head-christine-lagarde-exclusive-interview.html

From yesterday:

The Daily Beast: After Davos: Holding the Financial Beasts at Bay, 30 January 2011
Davos ended with a whimper, and now European leaders head to a financial summit in Brussels, unlikely to come up with a viable—and desperately needed—economic plan, writes Christopher Dickey.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/30/after-davos-holding-the-financial-beasts-at-bay.html


From The Daily Davos blog on The Daily Beast last week:

Davos World Economic Forum's Glum Kickoff, 24 January 2011
The World Economic Forum's annual Davos conclave used to be an occasion for ebullient world leaders to assure one another that globalization was the way of the future. Now they're just trying to figure out what the future will look like.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/24/world-economic-forum-at-davos-is-a-glum-conclave-of-cluelessness.html

Capitalism and Croissants, 25 January 2011
Peter Mandelson spins the political future in 2012.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/25/capitalism-and-croissants.html

Video clip: Gross National Happiness, 25 January 2011
Altruism is a pretty rare concept at Davos, but this saffron-robed monk is a regular, and he knows how to speak his truth to power.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/25/gross-national-happiness.html

Video clip: The Street Theater from Hell, 26 January 2011
"Where are your papers? Hands against the wall!" The UNHCR gives CEOs a chance to be refugees.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/26/the-street-theater-from-hell.html