Predictions, Warnings Round Out World Economic Forum
Posted: January 26, 2013
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TweetThe World Economic Forum ended Saturday in Davos, Switzerland, and Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times gives weekends on All Things Considered host Robert Smith a debrief on the week's events and why predictions made there are so often wrong.
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