Saturday, May 09, 2009

Investing: Mother Knows Best

A photo in The New York Times caught my eye the other day. It showed financial movers and shakers listening to a presentation at The Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Three women sat together up front. One or two more women (it was hard to see) might have been sitting further back. Otherwise, the audience was men in suits. Almost all, men in suits.

Whoa! Wasn't it men in suits who got us into this mess? Wouldn't the financial future look brighter if we saw a Fed audience of women, with maybe a couple of men in suits huddled up front?

It well might. Read Ron Lieber's salute to the superior emotional stability of mothers and other females.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons

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