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In reply to the discussion: Stock Market Watch, Tuesday July 30, 2013 [View all]xchrom
(108,903 posts)12. New York Times Goes HARD After Larry Summers In Aggressive Editorial Supporting Janet Yellen For Fed
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-times-endorses-janet-yellen-2013-7
The "race" between Larry Summers and Janet Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke is becoming more and more like a political battle every day.
The latest example: A STRONG endorsement of Janet Yellen in the New York Times, that reads a lot like a paper endorsing a politician.
Not only is it a strong endorsement of Yellen, it's pretty brutal towards Larry Summers, whom the paper ties to bad economic decisions, bad regulatory decisions, and even sexism.
First on the differences in their economic pasts:
A Yale educated economist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, she was first nominated and confirmed to the Fed board in the 1990s; from 2004 to 2010, she served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She has been vice chairwoman since 2010, a trying time in which the Feds largely successful efforts to steer the economy have been made all the more difficult by poor fiscal policy decisions, including the White Houses premature pivot from stimulus to deficit reduction, which happened while Mr. Summers was a top adviser to Mr. Obama.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-times-endorses-janet-yellen-2013-7#ixzz2aWvQVmZQ
The "race" between Larry Summers and Janet Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke is becoming more and more like a political battle every day.
The latest example: A STRONG endorsement of Janet Yellen in the New York Times, that reads a lot like a paper endorsing a politician.
Not only is it a strong endorsement of Yellen, it's pretty brutal towards Larry Summers, whom the paper ties to bad economic decisions, bad regulatory decisions, and even sexism.
First on the differences in their economic pasts:
A Yale educated economist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, she was first nominated and confirmed to the Fed board in the 1990s; from 2004 to 2010, she served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She has been vice chairwoman since 2010, a trying time in which the Feds largely successful efforts to steer the economy have been made all the more difficult by poor fiscal policy decisions, including the White Houses premature pivot from stimulus to deficit reduction, which happened while Mr. Summers was a top adviser to Mr. Obama.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-times-endorses-janet-yellen-2013-7#ixzz2aWvQVmZQ
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New York Times Goes HARD After Larry Summers In Aggressive Editorial Supporting Janet Yellen For Fed
xchrom
Jul 2013
#12
"In the end, the choice rests with Mr. Obama. The facts are entirely on Ms. Yellen’s side."
Demeter
Jul 2013
#15