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The World Economic Forum s meeting of business and political leaders has been called off this year.
When it reconvenes in the first half of 2022, the event will look very different.
It remains to be seen whether the elite confab can ever regain the status and influence it once had.
Predicting the demise of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos is nearly as old as the five-decade-old event itself. Yet with an embarrassing string of postponements and cancellations, it is worth wondering again how long the expensive and tedious yet lucrative gabfest in the Swiss Alps can last.