Lawrence Summers

Obama's Call for Educating Women

David Gartner | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Education, Obama Mideast Trip, Barack Obama Middle East, Obama Education, World Bank, Lawrence Summers, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cairo, World News

Education, especially for girls and women, is the most highly leveraged investment now available for developing countries.

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Fed Hires Former Enron Lobbyist To Improve Its Image

bloomberg.com | Robert Schmidt | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Federal Budget Deficit, Ben Bernake, Federal Reserve, Linda Robertson, Ben Bernanke, Enron Lobbyist, Lawrence Summers, Business News

June 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve intends to hire a veteran lobbyist as it seeks to counter skepticism in Congress about the central bank's gr...

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GM: America's Favorite Abusive Husband

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Bailout, General Motors, Gm, Economy, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Business News

At what point will Americans stop lying about how they got their black eyes and start blaming these giant corporations?

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Summers: U.S. Economy No Longer In 'Freefall'

Bloomberg | Chua Kong Ho | Posted 06.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Regulation, White House Economic Council, Bailout, Lawrence Summers, Economic Crisis, Freefall, Business News

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy is no longer in "freefall," Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council, said today in a p...

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The Clinton Bubble

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Timothy Geithner, Bailout, Clinton, Economy, Lawrence Summers, Obama, Robert Rubin, Citigroup, Business News

Has Timothy Geithner ever had lunch with a non-megamillionaire who has lost his job or home because of the banking meltdown?

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Larry Summers Contradicts Himself on US-Cuba Policy

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.20.2009 | World

Read More: Larry Summers, Obama Cuba, Cuba, Cuba Embargo, U.S.-Cuba Policy, Lawrence Summers, World News

One of the disappointments of the Obama administration thus far has been the extent to which it has embraced the traditional U.S. policy toward Castro-run Cuba.

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Barack Obama -- More Presidential By The Day

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, President Obama, Jay Leno, Credibility, Political Power, Timothy Geithner, Stephen Colbert, Presidential Learning Curve, Lawrence Summers, 100 Days, Politics News

Rare is a president who learns so fast, who observes so deeply, who can take criticism and walk away better for it.

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Take a Hike, Professor Summers!

Murray Fromson | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York Times, Harvard University, Frank Rich, World Bank, Economy, Lawrence Summers, President Obama, Politics News

What is incomprehensible is that Summers may be an economic genius, but he seems to have the sensitivity of a 300 lb. gorilla.

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Debt is Not Money

Thom Hartmann | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Thom Hartmann, Currency, Debt, Money, Reaganomics, Thomas Jefferson Letter, Business News

If followed, the Summers/Geithner policy can have only one of two outcomes: inflation or another, more serious crash. It's possible we could have both.

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Frank Rich Challenges Larry Summers, Bankrupt Culture He Represents

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Larry Summers, Frank Rich, Lawrence Summers, Obama Administration, Frank Rich and Larry Summers, Politics News

"I am pronouncing the depression over!" declared CNBC's irrepressible Jim Cramer on April 2. The next day the unemployment rate, already at the highes...

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Larry Summers: Greedy And Highly Compromised

True/Slant | Matt Taibbi | Posted 05.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Larry Summers Speaking Fees, Larry Summers Greedy, Summers Larry, Larry Summers, Speaking Fees Larry Summers, Lawrence Summers, Business News

So I guess that $45,000 speaking fee from Merrill Lynch wasn't technically a bribe because Summers wasn't named to Obama's economic transition team un...

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Caption This Photo, Vote For Thursday's Best, See Wednesday's Winner!

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Summers Demonstrators, David Rubenstein, Larry Summers Protesters, Lawrence Summers Protesters, Lawrence Summers, Code Pink, Caption Contest, Poll, Comedy News

Original Caption: Two demonstrators from Code Pink For Peace interrupt an interview between Lawrence Summers (L), the Director of President Barack Oba...

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Summers: Economic "Free-Fall" To End Soon

Reuters | Posted 05.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Larry Summers, Summers Economy, Lawrence Summers, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. economy will end its "free-fall" within a few months as government stimulus and rescue efforts take hold and inventor...

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Bilking The Summers-Geithner Plan: How Wall Street Will Use It For Profit

The Boston Globe | Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Toxic Assets, Treasury Department, Summers-Geithner Plan, Timothy Geithner, Treasury-Plan, Toxic Assets Plan, Lawrence Summers, Federal Financial Authority, Limited Purpose Banking, Business News

IT'S ONE thing for the US Treasury Department to overpay banks for their toxic assets on the prayer that bank shareholders will do something besides p...

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Living Large and in Charge

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Merrill Lynch, Bailout, Goldman Sachs, Truthdig, Lawrence Summers, Lehman Brothers, Aig, Harvard, Wall Street, Business News

No one has been more persistently effective in paving the way for the financial swindles that enriched the titans of finance while impoverishing the rest of the world than Lawrence Summers.

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Economic Adviser to the Aristocracy

David Bromwich | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street, Obama Economic Advisers, Hedge Funds, Honorariums, Economy, Larry Summers, Banks, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Business News

One sees in the recent career of Larry Summers how subtle, consistent, and pervasive are the means by which an aristocracy maintains itself.

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Lurking Defense Secretary Provides Adult Supervision and Stabilizes Obama National Security Team

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Robert Gates, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Defense Policy, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Afghanistan, Afpak, Joe Biden, Lawrence Summers, Politics News

Gates is setting an example in how to manage the complex challenges facing the Obama team that others would be wise to follow. He seems focused on strategy and the results America needs.

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Obama's Banking Rescue: O for Opaque

Robert Kuttner | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geithner Plan, Economy, Geithner Bailout, 100 Days, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Bank Bailout, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, Politics News

I fear that these columns have been too polite. What we have is something perilously close to a dictatorship of the Fed and the Treasury, acting in the interests of Wall Street.

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Larry Summers: Brilliant Mind, Toxic Ideas

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, Economic Crisis, Larry Summers, Obama Economy, Lawrence Summers, Obama Economics, Wall Street Crisis, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Glass-Steagall, Sleep, Politics News

It was on Summers' watch that the credit-default swaps warhead that has blown up our economy was launched. It would be hard to make assumptions that turned out to be more wrong than his were.

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AIG and the Rest of the Looters

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

What if the regulators were better rewarded for their efforts? Much better rewarded? What if they could keep some hefty percentage of the proceeds of every scam they uncovered, every scheme they shut down?

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Wall Street, Geithner, and Defunct Economics Threaten Obama's Leadership

Ann Pettifor | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Robert Rubin, Wall Street Bailout, Nelson Mandela, Timothy Geithner, Alan Greenspan, Wall Street, Lawrence Summers, Financial Crisis, Business News

President Obama is in danger of making the same mistake Nelson Mandela made. Obama is abrogating power to shape the recovery of the US economy, and handing over the leadership to Wall Street and lesser mortals.

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Summers To Bloomberg TV: Investors In Geithner Plan Exempt From Compensation Limits

Bloomberg | Chris Antsey | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Public/Private Partnerships, Geithner, Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, Geithner Plan, Lawrence Summers, Tim Geithner, Bonus Outrage, Business News

White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers said that investors in the Public-Private Investment Program won't be subject to the c...

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Obama Economic Board Has Yet To Hold Public Meeting

Politico | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Christina Romer, White House Economic Policy, White House Economic Advisor, Economic Board, Larry Summers, Obama Economy, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Paul A. Volcker, Barack Obama, Politics News

Six weeks after President Barack Obama appointed a blue-ribbon panel to help him dig America out of its economic crisis, the board has yet to hold an ...

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It's Bonus Time at AIG!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aig, Gerry Pasciucco, Hank Paulson, AIG Retention Bonuses, Tim Geithner, AIG Bailout, Aig Bonuses, Henry Paulson, Larry Summers, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, American International Group, Lawrence Summers, Edward Liddy, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Politics News

Let us suggest, Mr. President, that one man's "outrage" is another man's vacation home. And what some call "greed," others recognize as the lubricant that turns the wheels of commerce.

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World Government

Scott Malcomson | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

Read More: US Economy, Gordon Brown, Deficit, Sebastian Mallaby, Council on Foreign Relations, Group-of-20-Economy-Meeting, World Economy, Brad Setser, Brazil, Group-of-20, Quantitative Easing, Us Economic Crisis, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Bric, Mantega, World News

The FT columnist Gideon Rachman wrote a column a couple of months ago about the need for world government, and he got more and different readers than ...

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