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LAWRENCE SUMMERS

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers
BUSINESS / Economy
May 4, 2024
Ex-U.S. Treasury chief says currency interventions fail even at Japan’s scale
Policymakers likely spent some ¥9 trillion this week, an analysis of Bank of Japan accounts shows.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2021
Biden’s stimulus trade-offs
While Lawrence Summers may be overstating the inflation threat, a careful review of Joe Biden's stimulus plan along the lines he proposes is probably a good idea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2019
'Modern Monetary Theory' may be Democrats' economic cure, but only Trump seems to have got the memo
From her home overlooking Setauket Harbor on Long Island's North Shore, a motorboat bobbing at the dock, Stephanie Kelton hopes to revolutionize how the U.S. government manages the economy.
Japan Times
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.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2013
Allies wage behind-the-scenes effort in Fed job push
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.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2013
Fed's dark succession games
It's strange how, in the first half of the year, humans beat robots in the dark art of interpreting the gnomic utterances of the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman.

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