Fiscal policy should balance growth, equity, and sustainability concerns, including protecting society's most vulnerable.

Having a proper understanding of countries' external positions - current accounts, stock positions, and currencies - is critical to highlight policymakers' shared responsibility to tackle external imbalances before they become too risky.

In reality, while currency movements can have a significant impact on inflation in other countries, dollar movements have rarely had a meaningful or durable impact on prices in the U.S.

With all the globalisation that has taken place, countries are a lot more interdependent and therefore 'coupled.'

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

You can make more money - you can buy a new body - but you can't buy time. If you are wasting it, make different choices. Don't wait.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.