So Long, Summers
Posted on Sep 21, 2010
By Robert Scheer
" Finally! The announced departure of Lawrence Summers as the president’s top economic adviser is welcome news...."
Ok, so why does this song start playing in my head?
Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done
Oh yeah, might be this:
"....." radical financial deregulation that Summers helped make law when he worked for Bill Clinton. He led the effort to destroy the career of Brooksley Born, the Clinton-appointed head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission who had the prescience to sound the alarm in the face of a dangerously spiraling market in suspect mortgage packages..."
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