The Hamilton Project at Brookings

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Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government

Charles W. Eliot University Professor

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The Hamilton Project at Brookings. Lawrence Summers, May 23, 2016, Video, "Strengthening the Safety Net to Mitigate the Effect of Future Recessions, Washington, DC." Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ3NhhN6q64&feature=youtu.be

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The Ghost Budget: How U.S. war spending went rogue, wasted billions, and how to fix it

I helped balance the federal budget in the 1990s – here’s just how hard it will be for the GOP to achieve that same rare feat

Quantitative easing, monetary policy implementation and the public finances