“Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.”
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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.