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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I think the approach we have taken in the administration, of focusing our energies and concerns on the fundamentals and working to strengthen those fundamentals, has been the prudent approach rather than focusing on the stock market,
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Our national savings rate is still far too low, driven by a personal savings rate that is not where it should be,
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If we can do those things, we have a chance to keep this expansion going. But this is not the time to take what (Federal Reserve) Chairman (Alan) Greenspan, what six Nobel prize-winning economists have said would be a very risky course with a massive tax cut. We're not going to let it happen, ... Face The Nation.
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China has to make a set of adequate commitments to liberalizing its economy -- commitments that are commensurate to the scale of its economy and to the importance of it in the world economy,
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Growing demand and growing markets and networks will tend to reduce costs and raise efficiency, making successful economic management all the more important,
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He is not only an immensely talented and versatile performer, but also someone who has given a great deal of himself to the university and especially to the vitality of the arts at Harvard,
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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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Nothing is done until the language is fully reviewed,
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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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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.
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What we must not do is attack the IRS in order to promote other agendas,