Dinner At Davos With Intel's Craig Barrett.

My first moment of optimism at the World Economic Conference came Thursday night a small dinner with retiring Intel Chairman Craig Barrett. He is riding off into the sunset soon to his ranch in Montana—a ranch you can stay at, ride horses, fly-fish and get pampered.

Barrett said this was his 10th recession. And this, too, would pass. To those of us caught up in the economic crisis, this long-term perspective was comforting. He said, yes, this recession was different, but “they are all different.”