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.

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

A global world needs global firewalls.

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

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

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

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