If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.

In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't move positions as quickly and as erratically as men. Maybe it is a bit less profitably, but I think it would have been less risky.

When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well.

Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.