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The captains of the business world (perhaps that’s just “the world”) met in Davos, Switzerland. The Economist’s Business.view column highlight’s what’s worth knowing from it, but the basic answer is not much you couldn’t have guessed.

Mood of the meeting: Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we must die. “The mood was moderately optimistic,” said Klaus Schwab, the founder of the WEF, but he was not at the same parties as The Economist, where Davos Man and Woman found escape from their economic gloom in boozing, dancing and singing.

The column has some interesting tidbits though. Perhaps this:

From realpolitik to virtualpolitik: Henry Kissinger. The venerable statesman, one of the co-chairs of this year’s WEF, was said to be considering becoming an avatar in the online fantasy world, Second Life.

What value a man like Kissenger — or any man or woman or child — would get out of Second Life is truly beyond me.