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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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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Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.
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Ultimately, we're hoping to expand this further (beyond Boston).
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What we must not do is attack the IRS in order to promote other agendas,
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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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The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the years ahead than it has been in the past, when debt was rapidly increasing, ... With $3.6 trillion in debt outstanding, even a 3 basis point (0.03 percentage point) reduction in federal borrowing costs will ultimately produce savings of more than $1 billion per year.