Need a respite from bad news? A retreat with top money thinkers may do the trick, says Jeremy Grant If you are bewildered by world events and wonder how things can possibly be so bad with January not even over, you are assuredly not alone. The United States invades Venezuela and captures its president. Greenland is sucked into “the Donroe Doctrine”. Conflict rages in Ukraine and Sudan. Closer to home, a Russia-flagged oil tanker is seized by the US in waters between Iceland and Scotland.