Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, is widely admired as a banker but it looks as if his marketing skills still need a little honing. Dimon professes himself unhappy with the official description of the plan for an orderly wind-up of a failing bank as a "resolution scheme". He wants to call it the MDBFBDB plan instead. It stands for "minimal damage bankruptcy for big dumb banks". We get the point, but it's not the catchiest of titles.

Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, yesterday refused to accept that this week's disappointing economic growth figures were an indication that austerity cuts were damaging Britain's recovery from recession, launching an unapologetic defence of the Coalition Government's policies.

A small blast shattered two windows but caused no injuries at a hotel near where top business and political leaders are attending the World Economic Forum.

Davos Outlook It would be unfortunate, however, if the polarities observed above were to translate further into confrontation. For while the World Economic Forum is a well-intentioned, collegiate endeavour, it does not reflect the increasing failure of the world's economic superpowers to co-operate for the mutual good.

Klaus Schwab, the founder of the Davos get-togethers, has almost messianic status among delegates to the World Economic Forum's meetings in Switzerland each year, and some would do almost anything to get on the right side of him. Still, how credible is the campaign being waged in the corridors of the Davos Congress Centre to nominate Schwab for the Nobel Peace Prize? We all know it's economics that makes the world go round, but still.

The world's leading economies were accused yesterday of abandoning millions of people to long-term unemployment by failing to organise a co-ordinated response to job losses in the way they confronted the financial crisis .

George Soros has warned David Cameron that he must do an about-turn on his austerity measures – or face plunging Britain back into recession. The international speculator spoke out last night as the World Economic Forum got under way in Davos, Switzerland. He warned that a mixture of tax increases and spending cuts were "unsustainable".

We're not saying that George Osborne isn't particularly bothered about meeting Fleet Street's finest, but the Chancellor's invitation to drinks at 11 Downing Street may not attract quite as many top economics scribes as one might expect. They were invited for this evening, hours after many of them will have departed by aircraft for the World Economic Forum's shindig in Davos, which is due to begin tomorrow. Still, at least the drinks bill should be kept to a minimum, a happy bonus during these times of austerity.

The last time I met Professor Larry Kotlikoff was over dinner at the London School of Economics nearly a year ago, after he gave his first riveting lecture in Britain explaining why he's so convinced the financial system needs drastic reform.

The ability of governments to respond to future shocks is at "critically low levels" after the battering of the credit crisis, according to a report from the World Economic Forum (WEF), the organiser of the Davos summit of political and business leaders. Its annual risk assessment gives warning that the unprecedented peacetime debts racked up by governments as they fought to restore growth have left the global economy in a precarious position.

Most of Switzerland's resorts are traditional villages accessible by efficient rail and bus services from its airports.

Exit Cool Britannia, re-enter Rule Britannia. David Cameron has held out the hope of attracting millions of tourists to rebuild the economy by concentrating on Britain's history.

Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, has called for a revamp of world groups such as the G20, the UN and the World Bank to improve international cooperation.