Summers

Summers Ignored Warnings About Harvard Investments, $1.8 Billion Disappeared

Boston Globe | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business


It happened at least once a year, every year. In a roomful of a dozen Harvard University financial officials, Jack Meyer, the hugely successful head o...

Four Obama Mistakes That Could Turn His Cheers into Jeers

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A year from now voters and the media will take stock of President Obama's mid-term performance. When they do four things will leap out as major Oba...

Summers Will Get Hotter, And Pose Serious Public Health Challenges

Grist | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green


In the dog days of August, you can be forgiven for not wanting to think about how it could get hotter, much hotter, in summers to come. Nevertheless, ...

Summers Criticizes Bailed Out Banks For Not Lending More, Says Economic Recovery Pace 'In Doubt'

bloomberg.com | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business


White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers chastised some banks that received government aid for not doing enough to reduce forec...

Sam Stein

Summers: CBO Chief "Was Acting Reasonably" With Health Care Testimony

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics


President Barack Obama's chief economic adviser Larry Summers said, on Friday, that the Congressional Budget Office "was acting reasonably" when it sa...

Summers: Economy Has Moved Back From Catastrophe

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's top economic adviser has new cause for optimism. Back in January, Lawrence Summers said, Google searches f...

Obama's Economic Misfits Finally Get It

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business


Robert Scheer

According to Summers and Geithner, the Obama plan to be revealed today promises that all derivatives dealers will be "subject to supervision, and regulators will be empowered to enforce rules against manipulation and abuse."

Reagan Didn't Do It

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics


Robert Scheer

Ronald Reagan's signing off on legislation easing mortgage requirements back in 1982 pales in comparison to the damage wrought 15 years later.

Elizabeth Warren: Finally Someone With a Clue How to Handle the Financial Crisis

Ian Welsh | Posted 05.06.2009 | Business


Ian Welsh

Elizabeth Warren's the chief watchdog for the 700 billion TARP fund. Unfortunately, she has no real power.

Volker, Summers Tangled In a Power Struggle

Bloomberg | Robert Schmidt and Julianna Goldman | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business


Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Volcker has grown increasingly frustrated over delays in setting up the economic advisory group President Barack Obama pick...