Larry Summers on Trump Tariffs, CNN
My interview on February 1, 2025 with Jessica Dean of CNN on how Trump’s tariffs on Mexico and Canada defy economic logic.
Larry Summers on Fareed Zakaria GPS
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers tells Fareed how he sees the global economy and that of the US adapting to a post-Covid world.
The Future of Work
Summers participated in a panel, “Future of Work,” hosted by Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institue on February 19, 2015. Summers said, “the idea there are all these jobs and we just need to train people is an evasion of the problem, we need more demand!” Read more
Growing concerns about the sense of stagnation
In an interview on the Charlie Rose Show on January 29, 2015, Summers discussed the growing concerns about the sense of stagnation. Summers told Rose, “we are in unchartered territory in regards to the global economy, with problems with lack of demand, deflation that’s too low, central banks that have trouble being activists and too much savings.” Read more
Need comprehensive tax reform
In an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC’s Squawk Box on September 26, 2014, Summers called for comprehensive tax reform. Summers also discussed income inequality, asset bubbles and tax inversions with Sorkin. Read more
Globalization Will Keep Happening
At the Export-Import Bank’s 2014 Conference on April 25, 2014, Summers talked with Ed Luce of the Financial Times about globalization, trade, education and energy. Summers said, “Globalization will keep happening, the question is whether its going to be a successful integration. Read more
US Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis & Zero Lower Bound
NABE: US Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis & Zero Lower Bound
Summers spoke to the National Association for Business Economics’ Economic Policy Conference on February 24, 2014 in a speech titled, US Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis and the Zero Lower Bound.
