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Oh, Mr. Summers, I’m Sure You’ve Encountered that Swagger Plenty

Jimmie | July 20, 2011 | Comments (0)

This struck me as funny today. What did Larry Summers really think of the Winklevoss twins? “Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind,” the former president of Harvard said in an interview at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were at Harvard at the same time that [...]

Fun at AIP: The Obama Economic Tag Team Flop and Porny Gorillas!

Jimmie | August 3, 2009 | Comments (4)

My new piece at AIP tackles the Geithner/Summers tag team who hit the Sunday talk shows yesterday. Their message was simple: the President considers deficit reduction a top priority and our economy cannot possibly recover with such a high deficit. And also mumblemumbletaxincreasesonthemiddleclassmumblemumble. I’ve yet to see an actual wrestling tag team pin themselves and [...]

Greed is the New Fear (Or, Why Progressives Can’t Leave Well Enough Alone)

Jimmie | March 13, 2009 | Comments (0)

Good news, folks. Fear has been banished and greed is in! Lawrence H. Summers, the White House economic adviser, calls it “the paradox at the heart of the financial crisis. “ “In the past few years, we’ve seen too much greed and too little fear; too much spending and not enough saving; too much borrowing [...]