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.
Christine LagardeI guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.
Christine LagardePeople can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.
Christine LagardeIf Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.
Christine LagardeYou know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
Christine Lagarde