Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summersis an American economist who is President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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The one exception was a technical matter relating to financial modernization: but there Alan simply waited until I left and then very quickly resolved the matter with Larry,
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dramatically simplify record keeping for more than 60 million families.
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He has provided very important and valuable leadership on a range of issues from the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s to the challenge of the transition economies following the fall of the Berlin Wall to the emerging market challenges of recent years.
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An SAT score means one thing if the student comes from an affluent school, where there are SAT prep courses, and a very different thing if the student comes from a disadvantaged background where there was no SAT classes of any kind.
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This is about concrete action and what Japan does going forward. That can make a big difference in stimulating the economy, repairing the financial system and encouraging the flow of capital throughout Asia. It will be their steps that will be decisive and not what diplomats agree on here,
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The inflation outlook does remain contained and unit labor costs (what it costs companies to employ their workers) continue to reflect he absence of inflation pressures,
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Certainly there was reference to that (Friday's stock market plunge) but the focus of our discussions was on the fundamentals of our economies, what we could do together to develop and sustain economic growth, ... With respect to the stock market, our focus is not to focus on that.
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The Harvard Crimson did such a good job defending me when I was in trouble, I have full confidence that it can defend the institutional principles of the Ivy League.
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The IRS faces a multitude of restrictions -- restrictions that would be unacceptable in the private sector -- that hamper its ability to provide efficient service,
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Raising personal savings is an imperative for American families and an imperative for the national economy,
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The success of the India-US relations depends on connections in other fields. The experiences of young people will shape the future of the India-US relations.
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These developments create a situation where I think there is more room than there might have been in the past to sit back and analyze what it is that happened, and think best about how in all of our countries we can avoid a recurrence of such problems,
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It should not be a source of low-cost financing for countries with ready access to private capital, or long-term welfare for countries that cannot break the habit of bad policies,
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The longer-term trend is that we've got a remarkably competitive economy, ... In the Game .