And this is bad because...?

"This is a wake-up call for the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos in January," Adams said. "If we do not regain the trust of people, the world will become ungovernable."

Among the many rich depths to this fascinating statement — which should be read very very carefully — my favorite is the shaking-the-head dejected bewilderment that the world's citizenry is slipping through the cracks of the clenched fist.