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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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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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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Raising personal savings is an imperative for American families and an imperative for the national economy,
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to take strong steps... to create confidence and to build on the very strong foundation for prosperity that Indonesia enjoys.
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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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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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This is something new. This is an intensified focus and allocation of enforcement resources in the most effective way,
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dramatically simplify record keeping for more than 60 million families.
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As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.
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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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As damaging as these attacks have been, the vast majority were conducted by disgruntled individuals, ... We face a future, though, where criminals, terrorists or even nation-states may use the same tools in a more organized way for darker purposes.
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But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
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Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.