Summers in Washington
Posted on June 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »
Forbes rounds up various possibilities for Treasury secretary should Barack Obama become president, and one of them is…Larry Summers.
* Lawrence Summers. Economist. Former treasury secretary under Bill Clinton and former president of Harvard University. Summers’ brief tenure at Harvard was marked by conflict with faculty and other controversy. Summers told Fortune this year the U.S. economy is resilient and he would be “very surprised” to see it supplanted as the leading global economy. He wrote in the Financial Times in April that interests of working people and the middle class must be more closely aligned in a global economy. Summers is also a former World Bank chief economist.
It’s a sign of just how effectively Summers has refurbished his reputation that he’s included in such discussions….but would women object? That “innate aptitude” remark still sticks in the craw of many of them.
7 Responses
6/30/2008 8:38 am
Sloppy, sloppy Rich
He said intrinsic aptitude
6/30/2008 9:14 am
Sloppy, sloppy me…thanks for the fix.
6/30/2008 12:46 pm
“still stick in the craw of many of them.”
“them” - who are you writing to or for?
come on now are you 12?
i think hillary for attorney general forget this VP nonsense…that would be really interesting,
6/30/2008 2:14 pm
Um, okay, Anon. “Craws”? Is that your point? I hope you didn’t get too worked up about that.
6/30/2008 7:28 pm
Richard, I don’t the issue was “craws” to the above anon, but the use of the word “them” in that sentence.
7/1/2024 7:58 am
Richard:
You are at times immature; not an endearing quality. Please revise.
LOL
Btw, yes “them” not “craw”…..again have you been hanging out in the 12 year old boys tree house with Larry these days?
7/1/2024 10:31 am
Tell me “Craw”, what are your endearing qualities? And you’ve got a lot of nerve calling anybody else immature when the best you’ve got to offer to this blog and this particular post are your childish, boring, petty criticisms. I hate it when people go on and on about some stupid little thing that has absolutely nothing to do with the content of the post.