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| Douglas Elmendorf | Lawrence H. Summers | Jason Furman | Kenneth Rogoff
December 1, 2020, Video: "Wendy Edelberg of Brookings, Douglas Elmendorf of Harvard, and Michael Strain of American Enterprise Institute discussed near-term fiscal policy. Then former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman of Harvard will present a paper arguing that persistently low interest rates require a rethinking of the framework for fiscal policy. Their presentation was followed by discussion with former Federal Reserve…
| Lawrence H. Summers
June 28, 2020, Opinion, "Covid-19 has brought into sharp relief the contrast between the experiences of the higher-income Americans who receive deliveries and the lower-income Americans who fulfill them, between those who can work safely from home and those who must expose themselves to risk, often with inadequate protection, between those who have the power to safeguard their health and their living standards and those who do not. More broadly…
| Lawrence H. Summers
May 2020, Paper, "Rising profitability and market valuations of US businesses, sluggish wage growth and a declining labor share of income, and reduced unemployment and inflation, have defined the macroeconomic environment of the last generation. This paper offers a unified explanation for these phenomena based on reduced worker power. Using individual, industry, and state-level data, we demonstrate that measures of reduced worker power are…
| Lawrence H. Summers
May 19, 2020, Video, "Former Secretary of Treasury Larry Summers discusses the lasting effects the coronavirus pandemic will continue to have on the economy."
| Lawrence H. Summers
May 19, 2020, Video, "Lawmakers Grill Treasury, Fed Chiefs on Economic Relief"
| Lawrence H. Summers
May 15, 2020, Video, "In this episode of Yahoo Finance Presents, correspondent Akiko Fujita speaks with Larry Summers the former Treasury Secretary for Bill Clinton, former Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama, and Harvard Professor. The discussion is a wide range of topics from the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic response to how best to reopen the economy and jump start the workforce."
| Lawrence H. Summers
April 24, 2020, Video. "Lawrence. H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, calls for the federal government to prioritize helping state and local governments instead of stepping in to support the high-yield market. Summers also says he has no formal relationship with the Joe Biden campaign. He joins host David Westin for an exclusive take on Bloomberg Wall Street Week. "
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| Lawrence H. Summers | Robin Greenwood | Carmen Reinhart | Dani Rodrik | Juliette Kayyem | Herman B. (Dutch) Leonard
April 23, 2020, Video. "On Tuesday April 14th, Harvard Business School hosted the MBA Program’s COVID-19 Symposium. The symposium consisted of a series of fireside chats between HBS faculty and several of Harvard University’s leading thinkers, who help us better understand the challenges that COVID-19 poses to public health, to our economies and globalization, and to the way we live. Speakers included Ashish Jha of the Harvard Chan School of…
| Lawrence H. Summers
April 21, 2020, Video. "Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. He served as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and the Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama. "
| Lawrence H. Summers
U.S. government should spend ‘whatever it takes’ to control virus. Lawrence Summers, March 26, 2020, Video, "Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has deep experience in economic policy. On Wednesday, he was among a bipartisan group of economic experts urging U.S. officials to prioritize resolving the pandemic’s medical emergency before trying to rectify its economic fallout. Summers joins Judy Woodruff to discuss direct payments to…