Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summersis an American economist who is President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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Today, the IRS operates in a low-trust, short-tether budgeting environment, ... This makes rational planning for capital projects such as information technology very difficult.
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When I first joined the Treasury some years ago, I can assure you we were not thinking about threats to the financial system emanating from viruses, Trojan Horses, logic bombs or malicious code, ... But we are thinking about those things now, and with good reason.
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It should not be a source of low-cost financing for countries with ready access to private capital, or long-term welfare for countries that cannot break the habit of bad policies,
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In Europe, the stronger growth and reductions in unemployment are now arriving, ... But for better performance to endure, Europe will require substantial structural reforms.
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TARGETING POOR ZIP CODES. This is a clear and unambiguous commitment.
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sharp rise in the price of oil is an important concern for consumers and businesses around the world, and has the potential to hit developing countries particularly hard.
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The IRS needs to be more responsive to taxpayers, to use technology more effectively and to be more efficient,
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The IRS faces a multitude of restrictions -- restrictions that would be unacceptable in the private sector -- that hamper its ability to provide efficient service,
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It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.
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The off-center portrait (of Lincoln and Hamilton) has been enlarged; the fine lines printed behind both the portraits are now much more difficult to replicate than the earlier original,
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With respect to the action that was taken, it was certainly a constructive step reflecting a careful attempt to respond to pressures that had gathered in the oil sector over time,
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There can be no successful economic development without economic growth, ... There have never been greater technological opportunities to promote convergence than there are today.
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What is happening in India and China... The integration of the four-fifths of the world where people are poor with the one fifth of the world where people are rich, has the potential to be one of the three most important economic events in the last millennium, alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.
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to take strong steps... to create confidence and to build on the very strong foundation for prosperity that Indonesia enjoys.