Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, former Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton
- This round of budget cuts in Medicaid in the OBBB far exceeds any other cut the United States has made in its social safety net. Read my New York Times opinion piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...
- This bill is more budget busting than big and beautiful. We helped balance the budget but Trump’s plan unbalances our finances and our country. Read my @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece with Bob Rubin. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
- Watch Friday’s Wall Street Week BloombergTV where I talk with David Westin about how inflation and unemployment are making the Fed’s job harder. We also discuss the economic fallout from conflict with Iran and the New York City mayoral race. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
- ‘Are We Past Peak Harvard?’ Frank Bruni, Ross Douthat and I discuss the state of higher education in Trump 2.0 and beyond in a New York Times online conversation. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...
- Is the Dollar Still a Safe Haven? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce podcast on how tariffs stoke uncertainty and investor anxiety, putting our financial credibility at risk. “It’s as much a question of psychology as it is of economics.” youtu.be/bsyI307Xmo8?... via @YouTube
- "This is the biggest self-inflicted wound we've put on our economy in history. ...Until we have a reversal, I think we're going to have a real problem." Watch my interview today on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. youtu.be/1NwDy__RJKE?...
- Looking forward to being on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News tomorrow morning at 9am ET.
- Institutions such as Harvard have vast financial resources, great prestige & broad networks of influential alumni. If they do not or cannot resist the arbitrary application of government power, who else can? Without acts of resistance, what protects the rule of law? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
- While the Trump Administration is right in saying universities have been wrongly accepting of antisemitism, it should not obscure two central realities.
- Trump's idea was to make America great again. Instead, the result in the quarter of President Trump taking office was the worst relative stock performance vs. Europe in the decades since they began collecting data. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Even after egregious delay since it was pointed up right after October 7, I am very glad that Harvard is curbing its institutional support for anti semitism. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- I am profoundly saddened and alarmed by Columbia University and Paul Weiss law firm’s capitulation to the increasingly dictatorial Trump administration.
- Today. 9:35am ET. Talking with John Berman on CNN about tariffs and upcoming Fed meetings.
- After the events of Friday in the Oval Office, I wonder if Treasury Secretary Bessent stands by his view that President Trump should receive a Nobel Prize for his efforts with respect to Russia & Ukraine. It might be the most absurd, offensive and sycophantic comment ever made by a Treasury Sec.
- Watch Now. Talking with @msnbc.com with @velshi.bsky.social
- I join Treasury Secretaries Rubin, Geithner, Lew and Yellen in writing this guest essay because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
- Trump’s tariffs are a bully strategy. Bullying doesn’t win over time on the playground or in the international arena. This self-inflicted supply shock is a strategic gift to Xi Jinping. 1/4
- Aside from the general issues about Trump‘s tariff and his economic nationalism strategy, today’s actions against Canada and Mexico are inexplicable and dangerous. 1/8
