World Economic Forum

n January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, movers and shakers lined up to spit into test tubes -- the first step to having snippets of their DNA analyzed by 23andMe, a personalized gene-testing company that for $999 promises to help people "search and explore their genomes.

Speakers: Richard Berner, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Mickey Levy, Chief Economist, Bank of America Securities Laurence Meyer, Vice Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC; Distinguished Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Presider: Daniel K. Tarullo, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

With the world’s financial markets teetering on the brink of panic, the world’s most powerful executives, financiers and politicians will be searching for answers to the global credit meltdown when they gather for their annual retreat in this week in the Swiss Alps.