Reporter’s Notebook: A Walk Down the Davos Promenade Reveals a New World Order

Snow blankets the roofs of Davos; the sunlight is blinding, the air crisp.

As the World Economic Forum bus winds its way from the airport into town, familiar sights emerge one by one: the frozen, broad expanse of Lake Davos; the hotel where George Soros once hosted his dinners; and the temporary, exorbitantly expensive pavilions of nations and major corporations lining the Promenade. Even the locations of free coffee seem etched in memory.