# TheWorldEconomicForum

#TheWorldEconomicForum — what it is and what’s happening now, especially at this year’s annual meeting:
World is entering time of 'great power politics', warns German chancellor
Macron tells Davos of a 'shift towards a world without rules'
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What the World Economic Forum Is
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss-based international not-for-profit organization focused on fostering cooperation between business leaders, governments, academics and civil society to tackle global problems. It was founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab and is headquartered near Geneva, Switzerland.
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#TheWorldEconomicForum
The World Economic Forum in Davos 2026 marked a significant turning point for the discussion of cryptocurrency and digital assets on the global stage. For years, crypto was treated as a peripheral topic, largely confined to technology-focused panels or speculative investment debates. This year, however, it emerged as a central theme of economic and policy discussions, integrated into dialogues about global finance, cross-border payments, trade competitiveness, monetary policy, and financial innovation. Leaders from governments, central banks, institutional investors, an

Davos' sense of "consensus" is that the world is not optimistic, but is learning to coexist with uncertainty
At every Davos World Economic Forum, the market's greatest concern is not a single golden quote, but the pervasive "sense of consensus" in the air. This year in Davos, there is no collective optimism about the global economy, nor panic-driven pessimism; instead, there is a more realistic sentiment: uncertainty will not disappear, but the world is adapting to it.
High inflation, geopolitical conflicts, and industrial restructuring remain core topics, but the focus has shifted from "how t