Christine Lagarde: If Lehman Brothers Had Been ‘Lehman Sisters’…
Maybe she was kidding, maybe she wasn’t. Responding to Niall Ferguson’s question about whether there would have been a financial crisis had more women been in senior positions, Christine Lagarde got the laugh of the night when she (jokingly?) said “Lehman Sisters” might have avoided default.

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