A group of economic advisers from the Clinton era thinks it may have stumbled upon a brilliant solution for America's current economic situation: make it more like the Clinton era. Which, given today's Washington gridlock, may not be all that brilliant.
In 2008, White House Economic Adviser Christina Romer wrote a memo outlining a stimulus package as large as $1.8 trillion, only to have it buried by Chief Economic Adviser Larry Summers. Could it have saved the economy?
Ezra Klein says Ron Suskind didn't prove his anti-Larry Summers thesis in Confidence Men. The real confidence man: Barack Obama.
Female White House staffers felt marginalized and that Obama wouldn't do much about it
The Winklevii respond to name calling with letter to Harvard President
The former Harvard University president remembers meeting with his students
The former White House economic chief is joining the board of Square
On Russia's political future, Internet-fueled narcissism, and the true cost of Medicare
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