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Lawrence H. Summers

@larrysummers.bsky.social

Charles W. Eliot Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, former Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton

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Lawrence H. Summers@larrysummers.bsky.social · last yr.

Watch Friday’s Wall Street Week BloombergTV where I talk with David Westin about how inflation and unemployment are making the Fed’s job harder. We also discuss the economic fallout from conflict with Iran and the New York City mayoral race. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

Summers on the Fed, Middle East and NYC Mayoral Primary

Fed Chair Powell says uncertainty around tariffs justifies holding interest rates steady for now. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers agrees but warns that rising inflation and unemployment ...

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Lawrence H. Summers@larrysummers.bsky.social · last yr.

Institutions such as Harvard have vast financial resources, great prestige & broad networks of influential alumni. If they do not or cannot resist the arbitrary application of government power, who else can? Without acts of resistance, what protects the rule of law? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Opinion | Lawrence Summers: Harvard Must Not Yield to Trump

As with most confrontations, the merits in this clash are not one-sided. But the Trump administration is acting in bad faith.

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Lawrence H. Summers@larrysummers.bsky.social · last yr.

Even after egregious delay since it was pointed up right after October 7, I am very glad that Harvard is curbing its institutional support for anti semitism. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson

Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...

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Lawrence H. Summers@larrysummers.bsky.social · last yr.

After the events of Friday in the Oval Office, I wonder if Treasury Secretary Bessent stands by his view that President Trump should receive a Nobel Prize for his efforts with respect to Russia & Ukraine. It might be the most absurd, offensive and sycophantic comment ever made by a Treasury Sec.

Lawrence H. Summers@larrysummers.bsky.social · last yr.

I join Treasury Secretaries Rubin, Geithner, Lew and Yellen in writing this guest essay because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.

Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.

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