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Larry Summers

  1. the economy
    The ‘Greedflation’ Debate Is Deeply ConfusedThe left should promote progressive solutions to inflation rather than championing dubious explanations for its cause.
    By Eric Levitz
  2. the economy
    Larry Summers Was Wrong About InflationThe economist predicted that the Fed would need to push unemployment above 5 percent to contain price growth. Whoops.
    By Eric Levitz
  3. the national interest
    The Lessons of Last Year’s Larry Summers HatefestNow is the winter of our discontent, made glorious Summers.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. the intelligencer profile
    Was Larry Summers Right All Along?How the ultimate Establishment figure became the preeminent critic of the Biden era’s economic consensus.
    By Eric Levitz
  5. the national interest
    Maybe We Should Have Listened to Larry Summers’s Warnings About InflationHe likes Build Back Better!
    By Jonathan Chait
  6. stimulus checks
    $2,000 Stimulus Checks Are Poorly Targeted and That’s FineThis isn’t the best way to spend $460 billion more on relief. But it’s the only way of doing it that Donald Trump supports.
    By Eric Levitz
  7. sports
    Larry Summers and Stuart Weitzman Are Playing Ping-Pong in the Jewish OlympicsCompetitors in 43 sports from 80 countries have gathered in Tel Aviv for the Maccabiah Games.
    By Alyson Krueger
  8. Frank Rich on the National Circus: America Is Soft on Domestic TerrorismMass shooters are the equivalent of homegrown suicide bombers.
    By Frank Rich
  9. summers of our discontent
    Was Larry Summers’s Fed Flop the End of America’s Most Powerful Economic Clique?The Rubinites stare into the abyss.
    By Kevin Roose
  10. the national interest
    How Larry Summers Paid for Obama’s SinsThe liberal revolt that won.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. the national interest
    Fear of a Female Fed ChiefThe only thing worse than rampant Obama inflation is rampant feminazi Obama inflation.
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. fed up
    The Fed Chairmanship Race Is a Bad Romantic ComedyPresident Obama has to choose between the charismatic jerk and the quiet hero.
    By Kevin Roose
  13. the national interest
    Why Left and Right Economics Can’t Just AgreeHere’s why you failed, Adam Davidson.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. confidence men
    White House Seeks to Undermine Suskind’s ‘Ineffectual Obama’ Book’Confidence Men,’ out Tuesday, reveals serious infighting in the White House.
    By Andre Tartar
  15. early and often
    Obama’s Economic Quagmire: Frank Rich and Adam Moss Talk About What’s Really in Ron Suskind’s Revealing New Book About the White House’Confidence Men’ details how Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, and Rahm Emanuel burned the president in the first two years of his term.
    By Frank Rich and Adam Moss
  16. mortgage mess
    If You Owe More on Your House Than It’s Worth (and Live in Ireland), You May Be in LuckGovernment there plans to pay off some mortgage debt … should we do the same?
    By Andre Tartar
  17. double trouble
    The Winklevii Will Not Take Larry Summers Sitting DownLiterally, they hate it when he won’t get up.
    By Chris Rovzar
  18. bons mots
    ‘Rarely Have I Encountered Such Swagger, and I Tried to Respond in Kind’Larry Summers on the Winkelvii.
    By Noreen Malone
  19. the revolving door
    Larry Summers Heads to Bermuda to Hobnob With Hedge FundersObama’s recently departed economic aide isn’t wasting any time getting back into the swing of things.
    By Jessica Pressler
  20. white house the new class
    Volcker Steps Down As Obama Overhauls His Economic TeamThe president is also expected to name Larry Summers’s replacement.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  21. summering
    Larry Summers Charms Them on the Way OutNah, just kidding.
    By Dan Amira
  22. cable news
    Talk Box: Sorry, Dems, Obama’s Daily Show Stint Wasn’t About Helping YouSome TV pundits see the appearance as an early start to Team Obama’s 2012 campaign.
    By Dorsey Shaw
  23. the two most important people in the world
    Stewart and Obama: The Ambiguously Earnest DuoBarack Obama and Jon Stewart haggle over the meaning of “change you can believe in.”
    By Avi Zenilman
  24. Funnies
    Will Bartley’s Larry Summers Burger Resurface?The Grey Lady is all over the culinary implications of Larry Summers’ return to Harvard.
    By Leila Cohan-Miccio
  25. what other people think
    Who Should Replace Larry Summers?A CEO? Anyone except a CEO?
    By Dan Amira
  26. comings and goings
    Larry Summers Will Have Time to Catch Up on Sleep After the ElectionHe’ll step down after the midterm election.
    By Dan Amira
  27. car talk
    Larry Summers Explains the Auto Bailout With Crazy Vietnam AnalogiesA White House tell-all reveals that the people who run the country have big egos.
    By Avi Zenilman
  28. departures
    Report: Top Obama Economic Adviser to Resign (Updated)Christina Romer “frustrated” with Larry Summers’s “direct line” to Obama.
    By Josh Duboff
  29. early and often
    Newsweek Columnist Alter’s White House Book Details Obama on ‘Teabaggers,’ Rahm’s Rage, Summers’s Nickname’New York’ obtained an advance copy of ‘The Promise,’ a chronicle of Obama’s first year, which will be released in May.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  30. i know you are but what am i
    Larry Summers Takes Umbrage at Being Called a ‘Little Punk’ by John BoehnerFirst of all, he is not little! He is an economic adviser to the President of the United States!
    By Jessica Pressler
  31. scoldings
    Obama Rips ‘Fat Cat Bankers’“Some people on Wall Street still don’t get it.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  32. the greatest depression
    Larry Summers Says the Recession is OverApparently “everyone agrees.”
    By Lindsay Robertson
  33. early and awesome
    The Obama Administration Is Just Full of ‘Sons of Bitches’What? That’s how they talk.
    By Jessica Pressler
  34. early and awesome
    Treasury Secretary Was Aggressive With RegulatorsPassive aggressive.
    By Jessica Pressler
  35. big-time lapses of judgment
    Geithner Loses ItThe Treasury secretary lets loose on FDIC head Sheila Bair and SEC head Mary Shapiro with an “expletive-riddled” rant.
    By Jessica Pressler
  36. the greatest depression
    Treasury to Remain DepressedThey’re canceling their humor workshop because people made fun of them. That’s the spirit.
    By Jessica Pressler
  37. the greatest depression
    The Treasury Department Needs Someone to Teach Them How to Laugh AgainOut of work? Able to make public debt hilarious? The Treasury has a job for you!
    By Jessica Pressler
  38. let’s get metaphysical
    Barney Frank: ‘There Is Only Obama’He is everywhere! He is all around you! In the Earth and the trees and the oxygen that you breathe!
    By Jessica Pressler
  39. white men with money
    Underneath Lloyd Blankfein’s Veneer of Sarcasm Is a Heart of GlassThe Goldman Sachs CEO sasses because he hurts.
    By Jessica Pressler
  40. early and awesome
    Tim Geithner and Larry Summers Are Still Best FriendsGeithner keeps his mentor happy with a combination of Shamu techniques and sugar.
    By Jessica Pressler
  41. in other news
    So Who Made the Most of Last Night’s NBC White House Special?Let’s stack it up.
    By Chris Rovzar
  42. early and awesome
    Larry Summers Is Counting On Geithner to Nudge Him If There’s a HurricaneObama’s economic adviser is reserving his brain power for more important stuff.
    By Jessica Pressler
  43. gossipmonger
    Katherine Heigl Has Gone Too FarThe ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star is asking for more money than Julia Roberts and Anne Hathaway on her new film.
    By Katie Goldsmith
  44. early and awesome
    Five Things We Learned From the New Yorker Profile of Peter OrszagObama’s budget director reveals information about the inner workings of Obama’s brain trust.
    By Jessica Pressler
  45. photo op
    Larry Summers Falls Asleep, AgainBut it was at a meeting about credit cards. Can you blame him?
    By Dan Amira
  46. the greatest depression
    Government Seeks to Make Banks Less Profitable As It Acquires Large Stake in ThemThe administration has a confusing new plan for the bailout funds.
    By Jessica Pressler
  47. early and awesome
    Larry Summers, ‘the Brangelina of Finance’We’ll buy it.
    By Jessica Pressler
  48. early and awesome
    Larry Summers, This Concerns YouLARRY! HEY!
    By Dan Amira
  49. early and often
    The Economic Team That Will Save America!We hope.
    By Dan Amira
  50. obama administration
    Obama Introduces Cabinet, Discusses Focus on ‘Strong Main Street’A thriving middle class, the president-elect said, will be key to his economic recovery plan.
    By Chris Rovzar
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