Just another excuse for heads of corrupt corporations to cash in on perks. Really, most conventions are pointless. Lets concentrate on improving our business in this tough financial time and stop begging for bailouts then spending money foolishly. Lets stop welfare for the rich!

The very idea of expecting the same people who created the crisis to now shape a new better future is more than absurd – we need people with a more positive view and more sense of down-to-earth reality to pull us out of this mess!
Let's create a new Davos that is "celebrating life" rather than "embracing death"...where today's problems leave the space to tomorrows solutions – let's exclude the dinosaurs of the past and pave way for the innovators of the future!

It´s not easy to understand why do we have to give the bankers and correlates the honor to decide the future of the world, mainly at this current time, when those are the first ones to blame for the mess.Bankers,on the other hand, are inhuman, merciless,coldhearted and do anything to aim at their own illimitable and greedy profits. Many people, doing business with bankers, end up dying under the unberable financial pressure of the deal and no one ever even receives at least any condolence from the financial institution. Why are they so untouchable and powerful ? The answer comes easily,because all the evils everywhere the world are so much ahead that no more is possible to get back the decency.

I agree that this crisis is an opportunity for the poorer countries, for the Global South where the majority of people have little or nothing. It's an opportunity because Wall Street and American capitalism are flat on their back at the moment, and thoroughly discredited in the eyes of just about anyone who can read a newspaper or turn on a TV set. The free market religion of the past 30 years has turned out to be based on false prophets, and now the chickens have come home to roost.

Now is the time for the developing countries to take matters into their own hands and DEMAND a global New Deal. They must think of how to reform the global system and international organizations to meet the needs of the majority and not just the elite or aristocracy. They should nor wait for America to take the lead or get back on its feet, but take advantage of this crisis to reform this planet.

As an american, I don't like to say it, but it's just a fact that the US government serves the needs of Wall Street and big business interests, not the needs of common people. Right now, it's pouring in trillions of dollars to prop up the system and return to business as usual in the world, but that will not happen overnight. During this interval when American banks and big business are weak, the Global South has the best chance to insist on certain reforms that will benefit the majority. This opportunity will not come around again for decades, and they can't afford to waste it.