Larry Summers

[BeecherVol]

http://http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/21/obama-adviser-summers-depart-white-house-years-end/

 

[BeecherVol]

"I'm looking forward to returning to Harvard to teach and write about the economic fundamentals of job creation and stable finance as well as the integration of rising and developing countries into the global system."

:ermm:

 

[CSpindizzy]

So the brain trust that we were told would bring America back did their job by June '09 and are now departing. I think the memo stating the recession is over should be posted in each and every unemployment office and yet again at every polling station on election day. Forget commercials. Forget robocalls and mailings. A simple flier will do.

And rumors Laura Tyson is on the short list are flying.

 

[VolsNSkinsFan]

good, less Ivy League Lobotomies trying to be economists

 

[utgibbs]

Huzzah! The career of Larry Summers is, well, a story. It's amazing some of the places he's turned up in his career. He's like the silent Jeffrey Sachs.

Unfortunately, he can do a lot more damage at Harvard than he can in the White House.....

 

[gsvol]

 

[droski]

Huzzah! The career of Larry Summers is, well, a story. It's amazing some of the places he's turned up in his career. He's like the silent Jeffrey Sachs.

Unfortunately, he can do a lot more damage at Harvard than he can in the White House.....

it's a pretty scary indictment of the democratic party that most considered summers too conservative.

 

[CSpindizzy]

What happens if Tyson comes on board?

 

[droski]

then we know obama doesn't care about being pro business. she's a nutjob. full believer in G as the solution to everything.

 

[volinbham]

then we know obama doesn't care about being pro business. she's a nutjob. full believer in G as the solution to everything.

We've known that.

 

[utgibbs]

it's a pretty scary indictment of the democratic party that most considered summers too conservative.

Why? He is - a thorough-going neoliberal.

 

[BigPapaVol]

Why? He is - a thorough-going neoliberal.

stick to talking about what he might screw up at Harvard, as you probably know more about that. As to his economics, you wouldn't know the difference if he advocated billy goats as currency.

 

[BeecherVol]

stick to talking about what he might screw up at Harvard, as you probably know more about that. As to his economics, you wouldn't know the difference if he advocated billy goats as currency.

Billy goats are natures bush hog. Money in the bank.

I seen one eat the legs off a rockin chair one time.

 

[gsvol]

Hmmmm, wonder if the Harvard student center
serves billy goat cheese ice cream??

O'Donnel may be on to something!

 

[gsvol]

Alan Krueger, a top economics official at the Department of Treasury, will leave his post next month to return to academia, becoming the latest in a string of departures from the Obama administration's economic team.

A spokesman for the Treasury confirmed that Krueger, assistant secretary for economic policy, would return to Princeton University, where he previously served as a professor of economics.

You'd think for all the hundreds of billions of money these Ivy League theorists poured into banking, at least I would get a free toaster out of it!!