I'm sure I'm a bit late to this party, having been on our Womenomics book launch/tour all week, and crazed in ways I was supposed to have banned with the help of Womenomics. But as Katty and I ran through the airport last week, and looked at the cover...

We finally got one. An email from a senior executive at a major American company with those golden words - "I check my emails at the beginning of the day and the end of the day. If you need me urgently in between, please call my office..."

We've been hearing...

The administration sees green shoots appearing in the economic data. We share that optimism. But we're focused on the arrival of a different color - we see a pink lining in this recession.

In the midst of all the fiscal gloom, the stress over stress tests, there...