Risk-Taking Women Will Destroy World, Wall Street's Other Problem, The Debate Over The Mandate And More

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Risk-Taking Women Will Destroy World, Say Male Economists

In the male-female divide, women are the careful ones, right? The ones more likely than men to buckle their seatbelts, less likely to funnel whiskey at a frat party, less likely to bet the family fortune on a Nigerian email.

Unless, that is, they are executives at a German bank.

In that case, apparently, women suddenly become Evel Knievel on a PCP bender. At least that is the highly suspect implication of a discussion paper presented to the world recently by Germany's Bundesbank (though "not necessarily" reflective of the central bank or its staff).

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