Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein
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Larry Summers faces a lifetime ban from the American Economic Association after emails revealed his close relationship with convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The American Economics Association rebuked the former Treasury secretary amid scrutiny over his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Larry Summers receives lifetime ban from prestigious economic association over Epstein ties
Larry Summers has been banned for life from the American Economic Association, a professional organization for economists, with more than 17,000 members, over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Larry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women
At the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks, for example, women constituted just 23% of 411 research track economists in 2022.
The truth about Larry Summers has been obvious for many years. That did not prevent him from being one of the most dominant figures in global finance and economics, or the leading apostle of the disastrous orthodoxy now known as “neoliberalism.”
Harvard professor Larry Summers has been widely criticized for his extensive correspondence with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But the denigrating way he views Asian women hasn’t gotten enough attention.
It’s just a comment that whatever the underlying truth about economist Lawrence Summers’ present-day expressions of “shame” about the past, the fact that his past actions elicited no outrage from left, right or in between calls into question his present-day cancelation. Isn’t the societal point to constantly learn from the past, and improve on it?
The warning comes from the former Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, who said in a speech in mid-October, that he thinks “it’s more likely that long [term] rates are going to go up rather than down, given the fiscal pressures on the economy (1).”