I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

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

People 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.

If 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.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.