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vanityfair.com - 19 days ago

Vanityfair: Endless Summers

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Throughout his dazzling but controversial career—top World Bank economist, Treasury secretary, Harvard University president, and now head of the White House National Economic Council—Larry Summers has been his own worst enemy. As friends, colleagues, and Summers himself try to explain his ...

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accruedint.blogspot.com - 20 days ago

Accrued Interest: Financial Regulation: How would you have it work?

— accruedint.blogspot.com — Yesterday myself and several other financial bloggers got the chance to meet with several senior Treasury officials, including the Secretary himself. It was a fascinating experience and I have to admit, it was just plain cool to be within the bowels ... (more) Accrued Interest: Financial Regulation: How would you ...

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dailybail.com - 25 days ago

Ratigan & Spitzer: "At What Point Is It A Crime? We Had Absolutely No Obligation To Pay AIG ...

— dailybail.com — Video: Dylan Ratigan, Spitzer & Glenn Greenwald Discuss Federal Reserve Corruption & AIG. You're going to love this.  Eliot Spitzer goes off: "Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Bob Rubin all pushed back against [those who supported regulating financial markets].  ... (more) Ratigan & Spitzer: "At What Point Is It A Crime? We Had ...

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DealBook:  Will the Real Larry Summers Please Stand Up?

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Economic Principals:  Sound Familiar?

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The now head of the White House National Economic Counci, Larry Summers has been his own worst enemy. http://bit.ly/38bSRw 4 days ago

I just finished Vanity Fair's story on Larry Summer. He is a PRICK. A Smart, but nonetheless a PRiCK http://bit.ly/3oQbdk #fb 9 days ago

Reading: Endless Summers - William D. Cohan, Vanity Fair: Throughout his dazzling but controversial car.. http://bit.ly/4tFAK1 11 days ago

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Will the Real Larry Summers Please Stand Up?
DealBook — ... executive and Mr. Summers’s chief of staff for four years at the Treasury Department, paints a very different picture of Mr. Summers. “You always know exactly where you stand with Larry,” Ms. Sandberg told Vanity Fair. “He pulls no punches. He does nothing behind your back.” Go to Article from Vanity Fair »

Links 11/6/09
naked capitalism — ... for Glass Steagall Repeal, Building Citigroup Bloomberg Banks Thwarting Feinberg Pay Model by Changing Bonus Formulas Bloomberg. I’d post on this, but it has been in “story to follow” mode for three hours. Federal Reserve Loses Expanded Powers Proposed By Obama Administration Shahien Nasiripour Huffington Post Wells Fargo Takes Chance With a Loan Exchange Wall Street Journal. More smoke and mirrors at Wells. Endless Summers Vanity Fair (hat tip Ed Harrison). I suggest you not read this if you have just ...

Weekend Linky Dinks
UpsideTrader — ... The indices all managed a gain of over 3% for the week, gold hit all time highs, and despite all the fanfare that the greenback was ready to roar higher, it managed to end lower for the week. The trading range continues. Have a great weekend and enjoy the links. The billion dollar airbag. The buy and hold song. Pick your letter and make your bet. The Goldman boys. Gotta raise? Your job was saved . Galleon was more transparent. Cohan on Larry Summers Maheras, who helped blow up Citi starts a fund, why not? Pandit wrote the “How ...

Sunday links: hard knocks
Abnormal Returns — ... trade war between the US and China is heating up.  (Aiki14, Free exchange, Infectious Greed) Should the Fed meet with bloggers as well?  (Aleph Blog) An interview with Hunter of the Distressed Debt Investing blog.  (Simoleon Sense) The Larry Summers profile every one will be discussing.  (Vanity Fair) Why do people buy extended ...

Larry Summers is in charge -- may God help us all
winterspeak.com — When I first typed in the title, I wrote "Gold" instead of "God". Freudian slip (if I were an Austrian). Just a quick quote from Vanity Fair on Larry Summers, the man behind Geithner: Summers has plenty of other things figured out as well, including the origins of the current financial crisis, for which he has crafted a cogent explanation worthy of his reputation as a policy wonk and his days as a college debating champion at M.I.T. “I think crises like this get made by multiple cascading misjudgments,” he explains, and then catalogues them: too much government ...

More on LHS
Greg Mankiw's Blog — Vanity Fair profiles Larry Summers.

Sound Familiar?
Economic Principals — ... in Institutional Investor in 2006 that laid it out in considerable detail. Only this month, Vanity Fair published a profile of Summers without mentioning the episode – or ...