Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In New York, I'm John Fassman, and in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Noma, one of the world's most innovative restaurants, recently announced that it would close

at the end of next year.

Working questions about the future and sustainability of high-end fine dining.

And there aren't many stories in which an expert forger is a hero.

But as our obituaries editor explains, Adolfo Kaminsky was exactly that.

A teen prodigy in the art of faking documents that saved thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied

France.

But first, this week the rich and powerful have made their annual pilgrimage to Davos.

The world economic forums, jamboree of free market thought leaders, has plenty to wrestle

with.

Conflict in Ukraine, inflation, wobbling energy markets, spreading economic protectionism,

for both politicians and business leaders, it's a fraught time.

So, Zanymint and Beto's our editor-in-chief, trekked up to take part in perhaps the world's

fanciest talking shop.

I've spent the past few days in Davos, which is most of the year a Swiss mountain resort

to which thousands of the world's movers and shakers come for one week.

When I arrived, it was snowing, it was cold.

And the town itself is really built along one main road, the promenade.

And in the middle of the promenade is a large congress center, which is where all of the

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