…was also then that deputy Treasurer Larry Summers testified to Congress that Born’s desire to regulate is “casting a shadow of regulatory uncertainty over an otherwise thriving market.” Larry’s testimony…

by Steve Roth, asymptosis Cross-posted at Asymptosis. Thanks to yeoman’s work by Larry Bartels, Mike Kimel, and a host of others, we’ve seen that over many decades, the American economy…

…worker’s retirements and towards the pockets of the ultrarich. The real motivation for this post comes from the latest duel between Kudlow and DeLong: Larry: The president’s goal is to…

Thing of beauty. Not everything worked but I haven’t seen anything so devastating since Colbert in 2006 Stephen Colbert Roasts Bush at 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner Open thread for…

The Krugman-Summers 1982 Inflation Memo As members of the Reagan CEA, Paul Krugman and Lawrence Summers wrote a memo to Martin Feldstein and Willam Poole on 9/9/1982 with the first…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

…Good Thing. Well, I won’t go that far. An Inevitable Thing. [Many sentences about Larry Summers omitted here.] After all, anyone who was paying attention knew that Glass-Steagall had already…

…October 2008…[emphasis mine] 11. Larry Summers 21. Greg Mankiw 35. Ben Bernanke 99. Eddie Lazear 132. Glenn Hubbard 249. Harvey Rosen 391. Christy Romer* 653. Austan Goolsbee [emphases Mankiw’s; Bush…