Who will be the First Woman of FInance 2013? One of this truly outstanding shortlist…
Once again supported by ICAEW, we recognise a group of women resetting the dial across banking, accounting, venture capital and beyond…..article 
Mothers who stay at home with young children, and older women who need to work drive unemployment figures up. Article 
We have featured Reinhart on WTW and think this is academic rivalry targeting one of the most prominent economists. In a defence of the paper she developed with Ken Rogoff later into a book, Professors Rogoff and Reinhart admitted on Wednesday that an “accidental” omission of countries from the first five letters of the alphabet from one data series led to the average growth rates of the economies it surveyed being depressed. However, the academics rejected in the “strongest terms” suggestions they had manipulated data to reach conclusions. George Osborne adopted their policies in 2010. Article The debate continues. Lost in all this sound and fury is the real question that we should be debating: Is it appropriate to infer that high debt is driving slower growth, and hence governments need to take greater care before taking on debt? Or is lower GDP growth, or perhaps some other factor, the reason that debt burdens rise? If the observed correlations reflect the latter reason (and there are hints that it may), then the whole exercise has little relevance to public policy. Article
Paul Krugman joins the fray. Video
Maybe. Maybe not. Heidi Moore of the Guardian looks at all the possibilities. Article 
In a study of sexual selection, most women look for broad shoulders and a narrow waist. Is that where love starts? Article 
When it comes to best places to work, employers score big when workers feel respected. That’s one of the key ingredients that helped Royal LePage Performance Reality snag the top work spot for women in the Great Place to Work Institute’s annual ranking…article 
There is a close parallel between the euro crisis and the international banking crisis of 1982. Then the IMF and the international banking authorities saved the international banking system by lending just enough money to the heavily indebted countries to enable them to avoid default but at the cost of pushing them into a lasting depression. Latin America suffered a lost decade. Today Germany is playing the same role as the IMF did then. The setting differs, but the effect is the same. The creditors are in effect shifting the whole burden of adjustment on to the debtor countries and avoiding their own responsibility for the imbalances. Interestingly, the terms “center” and “periphery” have crept into usage almost unnoticed, although in political terms it is obviously inappropriate to describe Italy and Spain as the periphery of the European Union. In effect, however, the euro had turned their government bonds into bonds of third world countries that carry the risk of default. This fact was ignored by the authorities and it is still not properly recognised. In retrospect, that was the root cause of the euro crisis. Article 
President Obama huddles with the top dogs in the White House while some members of Congress do their job. Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts, has convinced Bernanke and fellow representatives that these big banks must be broken up. Meanwhile Blankfein and Dimon fight to be bigger than anyone else and do as they please to get there. Article 
