The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

The good news is that nobody thinks they know anything anymore

It may be the first well-informed panel I've ever moderated, in the sense that you all know you don't know anything.

The FT's Martin Wolf, midway through a discussion with Montek Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the Indian Planning Commission; Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada; Christine LaGarde, finance minister of France; John Lipsky, chief economist of the IMF; and Peter Sands, group chief exceutive of Standard Chartered Bank.

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    [...] on the heels of the Fall 2008 meltdown, was something of a time to be humble (or at least so I've read). This year, rethinking regulation—even the nature of capitalism itself—will be a major topic. [...]

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