Larry Summers: The man who won't be Fed chief

摘要

Economist Larry Summers has always been a polarizing figure. Fans call him a genius, bold crisis manager and serial achiever: he was Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, president of Harvard and director of President Obama's National Economic Council. But Summers, who was the front runner to be chosen by Obama to head the Federal Reserve Board, also came to represent the revolving door between Wall Street and Washington that many people find problematic in the post-Lehman era.