Will She or Won’t She? Lagarde’s Next Move
For now, Lagarde is both the eurozone’s chief central banker and biggest political mystery.
Women’s History Month is upon us in the US (and soon we’ll be celebrating International Women’s Day in many parts of the world). Even as headlines reflect global turmoil, it’s a moment to honor some of the great women in finance of the past — an enlightened group that unsurprisingly hit obstacles at every turn and still pressed ahead.
Ever heard of Victoria Woodhull?
She was the first woman to run for US president! That was in 1872. Two years earlier, she opened the first female-owned brokerage in New York with her sister, holding the opinion that earning money was better protection against the “tyranny” of men than the right to vote. Advice that never gets old.