Larry Summers—the last Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, first director of the National Economic Council under Obama, and onetime president of Harvard—has been outspoken on a number of important topics related to the Trump II agenda. That includes: the roller-coaster tariff regime; the president’s attacks on the Federal Reserve and Jay Powell, its chairman; and the administration’s scorched earth pressure campaign against elite private educational institutions, including his alma mater.
“What follows, at Summers’ request, is the Full Larry—his words, not mine, to make sure I included all of his bon mots,” Puck’s William D. Cohan writes. “And for the sake of full transparency in this dynamic environment, we spoke last Monday morning, before Trump seemed to remove his finger from the Powell ejector button.”
Read their full conversation, at the link in bio.
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