Our Fortunes Rise Together, And They Fall

We Draw Many Benefits From Globalization That People Take For Granted. Poverty Has Been Reduced Massively Around The World. If You Look At The Chinese Numbers, It Is Quite Mind-boggling: 700 Million People Taken Out Of Poverty In A Matter Of 40 Years, The Poverty Rate Having Moved From Over 30 Per Cent From Hardly Six Per Cent Now. That Would Not Have Happened If There Had Not Been Globalization.

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.

You Are Never Wrong When You Have Voted Because You've Acted In Accordance With Your Conscience And Your Beliefs, And You've Exercised Your Democratic Right, Which Is, You Know, Perfectly Legitimate In Our Democracies.

If Inflation Is The Genie, Then Deflation Is The Ogre That Must Be Fought Decisively.

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.