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...Lawrence Summers was on multiple outlets saying a US rate cut in June would be a dangerous and egregious error....
...Jason Furman, a colleague at Harvard and former economic adviser to Barack Obama, described her as “a path-breaking scholar who has reshaped the way I think about inequality, women in the labour force and...
...Orszag remains close to several prominent past Democratic policymakers including Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner and Jason Furman....
...This, argues Furman, “would have a minuscule impact on inflation over the medium and long term” and also do much good....
...Jason Furman, professor of economics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a former adviser to Obama, warns that the supply chain arguments are “greatly overstated”....
...Cue Lawrence Summers calling on “team transitory” to “stand down”, Martin Wolf channelling the 1970s and my Swamp Notes colleagues agreeing that “Summers was right”....
...As Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers of Harvard argued in a recent paper, a successful fiscal expansion might improve long-term fiscal sustainability if implemented in a depressed economy....
...The writer is chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management When Lawrence Summers identified the central importance of secular stagnation for the global economy in his speech at the IMF in 2013, the Harvard professor...
...“Then we had to encourage people to go out and shop and buy and boost economic activity,” said Lawrence Summers, who was Mr Obama’s senior adviser....
...“Alan was incredibly committed to research that mattered,” said Mr Furman....
...“He studied rock ’n’ roll not just because he loved it, but because of what we can learn from it,” said Furman....
...In a government-commissioned report, published this week but somewhat lost in the Brexit noise, Jason Furman, a former adviser to Barack Obama, argued that the UK should force companies to open up their...
...A recent paper by Lukasz Rachel and Lawrence Summers shines light on these questions....
...Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman, former advisers to Barack Obama, argued earlier this year that it is time Washington ends its debt obsession and recognises that there had been few if any fiscal crises...
...Sincerely, Jason Furman, professor of practice, Harvard Kennedy School Lawrence Summers, Charles W Eliot University Professor and president emeritus at Harvard University UPDATE – DECEMBER 1: Since we...
...Sincerely, Jason Furman, professor of Practice, Harvard Kennedy School Lawrence Summers, Charles W Eliot University professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University...
...Now Anna Stansbury and Lawrence Summers argue that this is the wrong way of looking at things....
...Lawrence Summers has attacked Hassett, wrapping his substantive critique in unusually harsh personal criticism....
...(Jason Furman estimates that this sort of sustained growth pick-up only has a 5 per cent change of happening based on historical changes in productivity and hours worked....
...(Jason Furman provides some numbers in his presentation at the Peterson Institute conference....
...It doesn’t come more radical than Lawrence Summers, who last Thursday gave the IMF’s annual Mundell-Fleming lecture on precisely this topic....
...should be to help improve workers’ skills and other labour market policies — but those are the same policies needed to meet the challenge of greater automation, as the White House economic adviser Jason Furman...
...Jason Furman (once called the “wonkiest wonk in President Obama’s White House”) has outlined a “New View”, under which fiscal policy is more active and more stimulative in future....
...Prominent names this year include Jeff Gillette at Lawrence Alkin Gallery, whose 2010 series “Dismayland” is said to have inspired Banksy’s “Dismaland” theme park....
...However, Jason Furman, chairman of the council, says Mr Obama made repeated attempts to get more money into infrastructure and was rebuffed....
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