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China and Cryptocurrencies
Lawrence H. Summers, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Niall Ferguson, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow discuss what to expect from the fed and future digital currencies.
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CLEAN : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Laverne Cox, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie honored at Harvard University
Author and former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, actress Laverne Cox and other honorees receive the WEB Du Bois Medal at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Global Market Risk
Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers says that global market risk is building like in August 2007, but that the Fed is on the right track in combating inflation.
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We Can Have Persistent Inflation and Transient Inflation: Summers
Jun.11 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, says that it's a fallacy to think that transient inflation means we cannot have persistent inflation. He points to the labor and housing...
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Summers: Seeing a Paradigm Shift in Fiscal Policy
Dec.04 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor and adviser to Pres.-elect Joe Biden's campaign, says there could be a paradigm shift in fiscal policy, which could lead to using fiscal policy...
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House Prices are 'Scary': Summers
Jul.02 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, says the rise in home prices is "scary." He thinks the state of the heating of the housing market makes it difficult to justify the Fed's...
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Ghosn Press Conference Is a 'Trumpification' of CEO, Says Summers
Jan.10 -- Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. treasury secretary, and Roger Ferguson, TIAA President and chief executive officer, discuss the state of corporate governance and former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn's two-hour press conference. They...
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Summers Urges Fed to Keep Tightening
Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers dives into the September jobs report and explains why the higher numbers were expected. He also dives into the OPEC+ production cut and why there is a crucial need for balanced energy...
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Recession Expectations
Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers discusses the outlook for monetary policy and why he believes a recession is "almost inevitable."
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Harvard Doesn't Compete on Cost, President Drew Faust Says
Jun.27 -- Harvard President Drew Faust speaks to Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Studio 1.0" about the cost of higher education, competing against companies trying to disrupt higher education, and how technology can help bring down...
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Humility is the Right Posture
Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers on the tea leaves from the Fed minutes, antitrust policies, windfall taxes and the latest CBO projections.
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Leaders recognize 'it's all going to come crashing down' without fairness in society, says Summers
Jul.10 -- Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, says that leaders recognize the need to promote fairness in society. Former Federal Reserve Board Governor Dan Tarullo agrees that good, progressive economic policy should be...
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Summers Says Wage Inflation Should Ring Fed's 'Alarm Bells'
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary��Lawrence Summers��says the Federal Reserve needs to mount a "strong response to inflation" despite geopolitical risks to U.S. economic growth. "I think we are at or over the brink of a spiral of rising...
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Harvard's Amaker on Future of College Sports, Standardized Tests
Aug.10 -- In this edition of "Bloomberg Equality," Scarlet Fu talks with Tommy Amaker, head coach of the Harvard University men's basketball team, about the future of college sports amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Amaker also explains why he...
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EDIT 3 win Nobel chemistry prize for cyber experiments
Martin Karplus of Strasbourg and Harvard universities, Michael Levitt of Stanford University and Arieh Warshel from the University of Southern California have won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for laying the foundation for...
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Ivy League Fortune: Harvard's Highest-Paid Money Managers
Oct. 27 -- Harvard University's money managers collected tens of millions in bonuses by exceeding "easy-to-beat" investment goals even as the college’s endowment languished, employees complained in an internal review. Bloomberg's...
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What's at Stake in Bias Lawsuit Against Harvard
Oct.15 -- Anna Ivey, founder of Ivey Consulting, discusses Harvard's fight against a lawsuit claiming it illegally limits the number of Asian-Americans it accepts. She speaks with Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close."
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Cryptocurrency Is Likely Here to Stay as a Kind of Digital Gold: Summers
May.21 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, says that cryptocurrencies have their appeal for people looking for a kind of safety that is outside the workings of the government. He thinks...
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Seeing The Least Responsible Macroeconomic Policy in 40 Years: Summers
Mar.19 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, thinks that we are seeing the least responsible macroeconomic policy in forty years. He disagrees with Paul Krugman's thoughts on how long it...
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More to Fear From Microbes Than From Xi Jinping: Summers
Apr.16 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, says that the U.S. And the rest of the developed world has a responsibility to help low and middle-income countries recover from the pandemic,...
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Summers Concerned About Canceling Economic Dialogue With China
Jul.16 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, says that he is concerned about canceling economic dialogue with China, because it is important to have an ongoing channel of communication to...
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What the Coronavirus Outbreak Means for Pandemic Bonds
Feb.26 -- Olga Jonas, Harvard Global Health Institute senior fellow, discusses the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the World Bank's pandemic bonds with Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick, Scarlet Fu and Joe Weisenthal on "Bloomberg...
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"Fed's Balancing Act for Jobs"
Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers & Steve Rattner, Willett Advisors Chairman discuss the latest jobs numbers and how the Fed can navigate it'scurrent challenges.
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China Is a Form of Diversification, says Carnegie Corporation's Lew
Jan.10 -- Kim Lew, Carnergie Corporation chief information officer, Lawrence Summers, former U.S. Treasury secretary and Roger Ferguson, TIAA President and chief executive officer, discuss China's potential decoupling with the U.S. and...