Business / Economy Sep 30, 2016

Former U.S. finance chief Summers welcomes BOJ's yield curve, inflation targets

The Bank of Japan's decision to target the yield curve and allow consumer prices to overshoot its 2 percent goal are welcome steps in the nation's long battle to encourage inflation, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has said. Targeting the yield curve will keep ...

Business Aug 21, 2013

Allies wage behind-the-scenes effort in Fed job push

by Zachary A. Goldfarb

Lawrence Summers, one of the top candidates to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve, was being beaten up, and his friends from his White House years wanted to help him. So earlier this month, recently departed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other former officials in the ...