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Geithner said the United States wanted the World Bank’s board to engage in an “open and expeditious” process. Two Americans who have been mentioned for the post are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. ...
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Friday Night Doc Dump: Did WH economic advisers raise red flags on Solyndra as early as March 2010?
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Solyndra as early as March 2010 (via Doug Powers at the Boss Emeritus’ site): White House emails released Friday added further evidence that concerns about the Energy Department loan guarantee program that benefited Solyndra had reached as high as...
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Former White House economic advisor Larry Summers (R) poses for photos with a member of the audience after speaking at the Bretton Woods Committee International Council in Washington, September 23, 2011. View Photo »
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If you go back to ’06, ’08, he started to say some really good things in the Financial Times. There was talk about a new Larry Summers
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So far, two people most often mentioned as possible successors are both American: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former White House economic adviser and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. The State Department has insisted that...
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Not until we get on top of our debts, he has argued, can we expect to see the economy return to significant growth. As long as the deficit goes unaddressed, the economy will struggle. We need deficit reduction to allow growth, he argues. Mr Summers has...
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Matt Yglesias' reading of "Ben Bernanke and the Zero Bound," Laurence Ball is saying that Bernanke needed to be more of a jerk: Former Treasury Secretary and former National Economic Council director Lawrence Summers has always suffered in the eyes of...
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Former White House economic advisor Larry Summers looks into the audience at the Bretton Woods Committee International Council in Washington, September 23, 2011. View Photo »
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Clinton with Larry Summers - above her - are in the running to lead the world Bank Over the next few weeks, President Obama has a fateful personnel decision to make, and one that will influence the world’s climate, in a way that he has been unable to...
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POLITICO obtained the emails from a government source. Summers’s concerns about the DOE program have come across in other internal White House documents that have surfaced during the investigation into Solyndra’s financial meltdown. The most notable —...
About Lawrence Summers
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Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the head of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is the 1993 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his work in... Full Article
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Former White House economic advisor Larry Summers (L) talks with former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo before speaking at the Bretton Woods Committee International Council in Washington, September 23, 2011.
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White House economic adviser Larry Summers speaks at the 2010 meeting of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council in Washington in this November 15, 2010 file photograph. One of Silicon Valley's most powerful venture-capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz, is adding former U.S. Treasury...
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SHANGHAI, CHINA - MAY 20: (L - R) Yuan Zhigang, dean of School of Economics of Fudan University, Li Lihui, vice chairman and president of Bank of China Ltd. , Lawrence Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Michael Smith, chief executive officer of the Australia and New Zealand...
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SHANGHAI, CHINA - MAY 20: Lawrence Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, speaks during the 2011 Lujiazui Forum at Pudong Shangri-La Hotel on May 20, 2011 in Shanghai, China. The two-day forum opened on May 20 in Shanghai, with the title of 'The Financial System and Its...
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Former White House economic advisor Larry Summers looks into the audience at the Bretton Woods Committee International Council in Washington, September 23, 2011.
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Former White House economic advisor Larry Summers (L) talks with former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo before speaking at the Bretton Woods Committee International Council in Washington, September 23, 2011.
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