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Larry Summers on Inflation and ‘the New McCarthyism’
Larry Summers speaks at the Aspen Institute. (Leigh Vogel via Getty Images)
A conversation with the economist who predicted our current mess.
By Bari Weiss
08.18.22
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Larry Summers is one of the most important economists in the world. He’s been the chief economist at the World Bank. He was Treasury Secretary under President Clinton. He was director of the National Economic Council under Obama. And from 2001 to 2006, he was president of Harvard.

But perhaps more than anything on his resume, Summers is most well-known f…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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