Is Larry Leaving?
Posted on September 21st, 2010 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Asked about the future of his economic advisers, President Obama said that “they’re going to have a whole range of decisions about family” that will contribute to their decisions about whether to stay or go.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
There has been speculation for months that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers could take the fall for potentially bad election results—and the economy souring the national political mood against Democrats.
When you talk about family in Washington, that basically means you’re a goner….
You know what book I would read? A Larry Summers tell-all. (Which he would now be free to write, having been forced out of two high-level positions.)
Can you imagine? It’d be like Edward Scissorhands on speed….
2 Responses
9/21/2010 1:35 pm
This is pretty silly. Anyone who knows Harvard could’ve predicted that LHS would be leaving by, oh, Jan 2011. Two year leave of absences are what’s granted faculty who wish to return, and not to return to a U-professorship would be pretty foolhardy.
9/21/2010 4:42 pm
… and confirmation: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/09/larry_summers_t.html