Monthly Archives: August 2013

LAWRENCE SUMMERS TO HEAD THE FED? YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!

by MITCHEL COHEN With President Obama about to appoint Lawrence Summers to head the Federal Reserve, it’s worth remembering that Summers was also the U.S. government’s chief economics adviser for years. He left Obama’s cabinet just as rebellions against the neoliberal, austerity and anti-democratic programs he authored washed over Tunisia, Egypt, and Europe. But hopes […]