Lawrence H. Summers has played a leading role in Democratic Party policy making since the 1980s. A wunderkind economist, Summers, at age 28, became the youngest tenured professor in Harvard University’s history in 1983. He joined the Clinton administration in 1993 as Treasury’s undersecretary for international affairs. During his time as deputy Treasury secretary, Time magazine lionized him, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as “The Committee to Sa
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Face-Off: U.S. vs. China
A podcast about the turbulent relationship between the world's two superpowers, the two men who run them, and the vital issues that affect us all.