Topic: Lawrence Summers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Republican leader John Boehner on Tuesday called for the resignation of President Barack Obama's economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House economic adviser Larry Summers. (Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria; Editing by Bill Trott) 82012988&bid=informcom" /> ...
US: Governments should not jeopardize global recovery with overly rapid deficit reductionPresident Barack Obama's top economic advisers are urging America's major economic allies not to sacrifice economic growth to efforts to trim budget deficits. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, head ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blunt, brash, brainy and occasionally self-mocking. Larry Summers, the White House economic adviser, is all of these things. In a career spanning academia, government and finance, he has rubbed some people the wrong way and infuriated others. So when ...
Emerging Democratic voices: Bill to rein in banks is not tough enoughLiberal Senate Democrats who until now were on the sidelines are complaining that a pending financial overhaul bill backed by President Barack Obama does not go far enough to rein in ...
Obama's economic adviser says new financial overhaul bill would have prevented 2008 meltdownPresident Barack Obama's chief economic adviser says he thinks that the financial overhaul bill that senators are considering would have prevented the meltdown that began in 2008. Lawrence Summers says ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers on Tuesday urged businesses to embrace financial regulatory reform to prevent another severe economic crisis and ensure long-term health of their companies. Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council, ...
White House adviser Summers says banks must accept new rules, help reform systemA top White House official called on financial institutions to accept new rules in order to help the economic system avoid future "devastating consequences for workers, consumers and taxpayers." "Financial ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has helped pull the U.S. economy back from the "abyss" with aggressive efforts to spur growth and stabilize financial markets, a top White House adviser said on Monday. Defending policies that Republicans have attacked as ineffective, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has helped pull the U.S. economy back from the "abyss" with aggressive efforts to spur growth and stabilize financial markets, a top White House adviser said on Monday. Defending policies that Republicans have attacked as ineffective, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top economic adviser said on Friday the administration will not make the mistake of prematurely withdrawing all the economic stimulus despite signs of growth returning. "Despite indications of economic growth returning, we must remain vigilant. Concerns ...