Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.

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.

It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

Diversity in and of itself is a strong positive.

I think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.