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Sperling Tapped to Be Obama's Economic Adviser -- and Negotiator

President Barack Obama has apparently chosen to replace his departing chief economic adviser, a veteran financial policymaker from the Clinton administration, with ... a veteran financial policymaker from the Clinton administration. But there are big differences between Lawrence Summers, who steps down this month as...

Lawrence Summers' Greatest Hits (and Misses)

(Sept. 21) -- The White House announced today that its top economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, would resign following the midterm elections. With Summers' departure, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will be the last remaining major economic policy figure hired by the president at the start of his term. Both Peter Orszag,...

Top Economic Adviser to Leave White House

WASHINGTON (Sept. 21) -- The White House says President Barack Obama's top economic adviser plans to leave the administration at the end of the year. The White House said in a statement that Lawrence Summers will leave his post as director of the National Economic Council to return to Harvard University. Summers...

Meet Austan Goolsbee, Obama's Hilarious New Economic Chair

(Sept. 10) -- Austan Goolsbee, President Barack Obama's pick to replace Council of Economic Advisers Chairwoman Christina Romer, was once described by Washington Post columnist George F. Will as "a masochist with a sense of humor." The description is apt for one of Washington, D.C.'s most colorful personalities, the man...

White House Rebuts Boehner, Stimulus Critics With New CBO Report

(Aug. 24) -- What affect has the $787, scratch that, now $814 billion stimulus bill had on the economy since it was passed in early 2009? On Tuesday, three separate takes emerged from three high-profile sources. According to House Minority Leader John Boehner, the effect was primarily was a "job-killing" one that should...

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Lawrence Summers: What Kind of Inequality is OK?

Like many of us, Lawrence Summers is troubled by the gap between rich and poor in America and how that undermines our standing as "the land of opportunity."

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05/30/12 Lawrence Summers: What Kind of Inequality is OK? Source: The Huffington Post Like many of us, Lawrence Summers is troubled by the gap between rich and poor in America and how that undermines our standing as "the land of opportunity."
05/30/12 Summers Joins FIRE, by David Henderson Source: EconLog Professor Summers is President Emeritus of Harvard University.
05/30/12 Summers Says Worst Over For US Economy Source: Dow Jones Business News (via NASDAQ) Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said Wednesday the worst is over for the U.S. economy.
05/21/12 Democrats' Leftward Drift Is Blocking Tax Reform Source: KNUS 710 - Denver CO That's what Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution claim in a recent Washington Post op-ed.
05/09/12 Why Obama's Economic Director Lawrence Summers Failed:... Source: Seeking Alpha In 2009 and early 2010, Lawrence Summers, then Director of President Obama's National Economic Council, tried to engineer a Keynesian economic recovery that was to take place during the recovery summer of 2010.

Background on lawrence summers

Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist. He served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.

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