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Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast from Reuters Breaking Views. I'm Jennifer

Sabah, and I'm here with Anthony Curry. Hello, Anthony. Good day.

All right, the World Economic Forum, also known as Davos, is well underway in the Swiss Alps.

The annual gathering of politicians and businessmen is an annual right of passage, but this year,

the markets are shaky, trade wars are brewing, and political tensions are simmering throughout

the world. On the scene in

Davos, Switzerland is our Breaking Views columnist Clara Fierra Marquez. Clara, welcome to the program.

Thank you very much. So I think first things first, what, I mean, because this is every year,

what about this year makes Davos interesting and what's kind of jumping out at you?

Well, I think it's really the contrast with last year. So if you think back to last year,

we had Trump, there was a huge optimism, a lot of talk about synchronized growth. This year is

palpably more anxious. And that's really on two fronts.

I mean, on the one hand, there's the economy, the U.S. shutdown, which obviously means that we do not

have a U.S. delegation here, a sizable one, the slowdown in China, the trade war, when does

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