Topic: Lawrence Summers

As we head into the New Year, I am trying to look back at the last one with some semblance of a coherent interpretation of events that leads to a strategic vision of the future. These posts have been critical of the ...
SUMMERS: Let me welcome you all here today for the signing of this historic legislation. Tim Dickinson has some of the most damning quotes; unfortunately I haven't been able to find a photograph of Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, and others drinking champagne ...
I was reading Kid Dynamite's account of the recent Treasury - Finance Blogger meeting after having read a bunch of others (see them all in Abnormal Returns' Nov 4th links). And I was struck by his characterization of the thinking at Treasury ...
A while back I caught a clip of Warren Buffett being interviewed by a rather tiresome over-bubbly television star who brightly asked him a really-really profound question that the scriptwriter had obviously spent all night dreaming up: "You know the book on ...
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 " ""Financial institutions that have benefited from government ...

Obama policies averted economic "abyss": Summers

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, ...

Summers: Obama policies averted economic "abyss"

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, ...

Analyzing Larry Summers

If you haven't already, do check out Ryan Lizza's excellent New Yorker article on Larry Summers and the Obama Administration, which all the blogosphere has been talking about. If you are going to do the "Summers at Harvard" leg of the narrative, ...

The Good Things About Larry Summers

Yikes, the Ryan Lizza piece on Larry Summers is long - over 11,500 words. And even then it manages to say absolutely nothing about some key issues, such as the $5.2 million he was paid by DE Shaw to work one day ...

White House will not prematurely remove support

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 ...