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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What we must not do is attack the IRS in order to promote other agendas,
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We've seen some indications that there may be some hoarding behavior, but there are many, many factors that influence oil prices, both with respect to the short run and over the medium term, ... But there's no question that -- as in any freely trading market -- there's a psychological element that enters in from time to time.
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Ultimately, we're hoping to expand this further (beyond Boston).
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The president has set a principle: No bank with an unsatisfactory CRA rating could take advantage of any of the powers granted by this deregulation,
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The president has made it very clear that he will not sign any budget measure that doesn't put Social Security and Medicare first, that doesn't take those steps forward (and) certainly any measures that would put at risk the progress we've made in paying down the debt,
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Instead of targeting the rich Zip Codes, we're targeting the poor Zip Codes.
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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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By the end of next year, we expect to establish a regular schedule for offering inflation-indexed securities with maturities of five, 10 and 30 years,
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In Europe, the stronger growth and reductions in unemployment are now arriving, ... But for better performance to endure, Europe will require substantial structural reforms.
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Increases in capacity, along with improvements in productivity performance, have made possible increases in living standards without inappropriate inflationary pressures,
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I am worried that we will become a stratified economy, like many in Latin America where the prosperous and the advantaged stay prosperous, and the poor and disadvantaged stay poor,
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The off-center portrait (of Lincoln and Hamilton) has been enlarged; the fine lines printed behind both the portraits are now much more difficult to replicate than the earlier original,
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TARGETING POOR ZIP CODES. This is a clear and unambiguous commitment.
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It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.