By Austin Thompson - Nov 25th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Former Secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin’s fundamentalist free-market, pro-business performance as former President Clinton’s economic guru angered activists , labor unions, and others who favored…
Tags: Barack Obama, economy, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin, transition
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By Dylan Matthews - Nov 7th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
As I said yesterday, I don’t think Larry Summers is the best choice for Treasury Secretary. But some other Summers opponents are launching a deeply…
Tags: environment, government, Larry Summers, Matt Stoller, Max Blumenthal
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By Dylan Matthews - Nov 6th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
You really owe it to yourself to read Noam Scheiber’s piece in The New Republic about Larry Summers and Federal Reserve Bank of New York…
Tags: economic crisis, economy, government, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner
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By Matt Zeitlin - Aug 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Larry Summers, at the time the president of Harvard University, gained notoriety when he infamously speculated on the genetic origins of women’s under-representation in science…
Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, colelge, education, higher ed, John McCain, Larry Summers
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