Lawrence Summers

Do the Bain Hustle

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.24.2012

Obviously Barack Obama was right in criticizing Mitt Romney's stewardship of Bain Capital. How else to evaluate the business experience that Romney has made a central tenet of his campaign?

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Foreign Tongues

Charles Kolb | Posted 05.10.2012

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What do Newt Gingrich and Larry Summers have in common? It turns out that they both share an unfortunate skepticism about the importance in American education of studying foreign languages.

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Larry Summers: The Stimulus Pays For Itself

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.23.2012

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Larry Summers says the stimulus can take care of itself. Summers, who served as President Obama's top economic adviser until last year, has co-aut...

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Larry Summers' Economic Solution Depends On Taxing The Rich

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.14.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Larry Summers, a former top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, said on Wednesday that the U.S. government cannot cut its way to...

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The Latest Reason Larry Summers Is Unpopular

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.24.2012

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Larry Summers is in the running to head the World Bank. But according to tens of thousands of people that recently signed a petition, he's not the man...

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The Democrats Who Unleashed Wall Street and Got Away With It

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Deregulation, Bill Clinton, Summers, Economy, Lawrence Summers, Business News

Larry Summers, like Bill Clinton, still defends the reversal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, a 1999 repeal that destroyed the wall between investment and commercial banking put into place by Franklin Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.

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Research Adds Up: Girls Succeed At Math

Ann Brenoff | Posted 02.12.2012

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A major study on international school math performance buries the idea once and for all that girls and women have less ability to succeed in math and science because of their biology.

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How Will We Be Remembered?

Big Think | Posted 12.08.2011

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What will historians say about our time 100 years from now? How will our world be remembered? According to Lawrence Summers, economist and former Pres...

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Too Big to Jail

Robert Scheer | Posted 01.02.2012

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Why has Robert Rubin, the onetime treasury secretary who went on to become Citigroup chairman during the time of the corporation's financial shenanigans, never been held accountable for this and other deep damage done to the U.S. economy on his watch?

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The Real Cost Of Low Confidence

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Decision-Making, Kathryn Heath, Harvard Busines Review, Feminism, Lawrence Summers, Shankar Vedantam, Mary Murphy, Gender Roles, Gender Gap, Claude Steele, James Gross, US. Dept. Of Labor, Jill Flynn, Mary Davis Holt, Wage Gap, Erin Cech, Engineers, Women News

It's not that women can't make the grade, the study found. It's that, when it comes to venturing out into the workplace, they don't think they'll fit.

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Lawrence Summers Gives Great Keynote at NY Times Schools for Tomorrow Conference

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 11.23.2011

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Dr. Lawrence H.Summers, former President of Harvard, gave a brilliant keynote address at the New York Times Schools for Tomorrow Conference in which he talked about how technology will change education.

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Larry Summers Takes Seat On Startup Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 08.22.2011

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NEW YORK -- Former Treasury Secretary and former Director of the White House National Economic Council Lawrence Summers will be taking a position on t...

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Summers Calls For New Stimulus

Posted 08.12.2011

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WASHINGTON (REUTERS/Jeff Mason) - U.S. policy makers should reduce payroll taxes employers pay on workers' wages and focus on near-term economic g...

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Harvard Admits Record Number of Black Students: But What About the Faculty?

Dr. Boyce Watkins | Posted 06.13.2011

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Admitting students of color neither requires significant courage nor shows any real sign of meaningful progress when it comes to truly shaping the direction of a university.

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New Economic Thinking Conference To Shatter Illusion of Control

Steve Clemons | Posted 06.07.2011

As INET Executive Director Rob Johnson said, "last year's conference punctured the mystique of market stability (not to mention real events). This year, the conference will shatter the illusion of control."

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Obama's Economic Policy Architect Says Job Growth Around The Corner; Unemployment Above 9 Percent For 20 Months

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two years into the Obama administration the architect of the president's economic policy remains resolute that, if the nation simply waits, job growth...

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Perps in the White House

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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While it is widely recognized that the banking meltdown has left enormous economic pain and political upheaval in its wake, it is amazing that the folks who created this mess are rewarded with ever more important positions in our government.

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Which Colleges Landed Celebrity Professors This Year?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Those who prescribe to the old adage "those who can't do, teach," will have to think again -- this year, a slew of writers, politicians and even celeb...

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Return of the Great Triangulator

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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How desperate is Obama that he would turn to the great triangulator, Bill Clinton, who opened the floodgates to banking greed, for validation of the sorry opportunistic hodgepodge that passes for this administration's economic policy?

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Summers, Unapologetic To The Bitter End

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his final public remarks as head of President Obama's National Economic Council on Monday morning, Larry Summers, to no one's surprise, had nothin...

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Lawrence Summers Needs to Retool his Wall Street Tilt

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Summers, no matter what some critics say, is a formidable intellectual heavyweight on economics policy -- and will continue to be, long after he leaves the White House. However, he needs to retool.

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"Dude," Where's My President!?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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My biggest problem with Obama's Daily Show appearance was that it was a dreadful performance. The president was unattractively defensive, and at times rambling, humorless, pleading and frustrated.

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Jon Stewart's incisive Obama interview proves he deserved the President's time

Eric Deggans | Posted 05.25.2011

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If anything comes of President Barack Obama's historic visit to Comedy Central's Daily Show, I hope it is this: People will stop griping about how su...

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Movie Review: Inside Job

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Inside Job explains complex ideas with a clarity and skill that make them comprehensible to anyone willing to pay attention. But Charles Ferguson does it in a way that doesn't dumb things down.

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Eat, Pray, Love and the Economic Crisis

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Liz Gilbert said of Italy, "In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, only artistic excellence is incorruptible." I have pondered her insight for weeks. I keep asking myself the essential question. Is the US headed the way of Italy?

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