March 29, 2024

Summers: After Weighing in on Tons of Other Issues, Academia Went Soft on Hamas Attacks

During an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Harvard Professor and President Emeritus and former Harvard President Larry Summers stated that the “collective response of America’s academic leadership” to the Hamas attacks on Israel has been poor and noted that there have been a “number of issues on which leadership at Harvard and other universities have

Summers: Deal on Battery Plants Between UAW, Big 3 Will Be Harder to Reach than an Agreement on Wage Increase

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers argued that it will be more difficult for the UAW and automakers to reach an agreement on things like battery plants

Summers: There’s Not Much ‘Evidence of a Basic Downwards Trend in Inflation’ and Fed ‘Has Considerably More Work to Do’

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers argued that “we don’t have a lot of evidence of a basic downwards trend in inflation” and the Federal Reserve “has

Summers: We’re Going to Have to Replace Oil Released from SPR, Which Will Raise Prices

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers stated that while he agrees with the initial release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve done by the Biden administration, he isn’t…

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