Thursday, March 15, 2012

Larry summers

  • 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 fiscal sustainability.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Larry Summers, who served as the Director of the Council of Economic Advisors until 2010, argues in todays Financial Times that candidates should avoid making election year promises about tax policy because theyll get roped into bad policies.
  • (DAILY KOS)
  • Larry Summers, who was U.S. Treasury Secretary in the late 1990s, called tax reform the one thing that unites people right now.
  • (Reuters)
  • Larry Summers, made sense. 'I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up that', according to a memo with Summers' signature (http://www.whirledbank.
  • (Counter Punch)
  • Its an amusing but absurd scenario. Al Hunt of Bloomberg News wrote this week that Hillary could waltz past Larry Summers into the presidency of the World Bank and that she is the automatic front-runner for 2016.
  • (Seattle Times)
  • It's now at 8.3 percent. Newly released confidential memos from Larry Summers, the president's former top economic adviser, shed more light on what Team Obama was thinking when it embarked on its bold gamble.
  • (Politico.com)
  • "It is still sitting there. The governor delayed it for one year, but that doesn't mean it is gone away," said Larry Summers, an Oriental town commissioner and one of the organizers of a group Don't Tax Our Highway.
  • (Havelock News)
  • Larry Summers, made sense.
  • (AllAfrica.com)

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