I started in the financial services industry in 1988 as an analyst at Goldman Sachs. Eight years later at the age of 32, I was the first female trader and youngest woman to be invited in to the partnership of this firm. I was an example of how women could...

Dear Hank,

It has been over six years since I left Goldman Sachs and my position in the executive office where I had the honor of working for you. My how quickly time flies? Although we have not seen each other in person since my last day at the firm,...

So much is broken in the world that at times I just want to ball up and cry. I mean really, in a time of financial and economic crisis, can you bear to read the story of Governor Blagojevich trying to auction off Obama's senate seat? At the same...

The trouble with America is... Don't you just hate it when a sentence or conversation begins like that? I tend to hear it a lot as I spend a good deal of time in a foreign country, namely Canada. I also spent some time in France this summer and I...

Wake up America. Wake up. Tomorrow you are given the choice of two men to make CEO of the most powerful country in the world. It will be time to cast your ballot.

Many are saying this is the most important leadership decision we will make in...

Wednesday Goldman Sachs & Co. announced their new class of Partners and yesterday they announced their new Managing Directors. Twelve years ago I was one of those fortunate people who got the call inviting me into the partnership of the firm. The year I made it, I was...

According to Bill Gross, a fixed income market guru, the size of the credit default swap market is "$43 trillion, more that half the size of the entire asset base of the global banking system." If that is not scary enough he goes on to tell is that "total...

In yet another alarming move, the government just decided that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the nation's two government sponsored mortgage companies, can be part of the 'quick fix' that will rescue the U.S. economy. These mortgage giants, which are operated as public companies yet lean heavily on the shoulders...

The markets have spoken. Monday's global market sell off is telling us that Henry Paulson, U.S. Treasury Secretary, might well go down in history as another of Bush's "Confidence Men." U.S. markets opened sharply lower on Tuesday suggesting that the investing world did not believe what the economic front...