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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
- Summers has certainly made mistakes. I'm right there with you on the regulations of derivatives.
- Consensus economics has largely failed the country and the people who vote for Trump over the last many years.
- Some of the things for which Sebby faults Summers are obviously not his fault, and there are important ways in which we would be better off if Summers were listened to more.
- Sebby's fondness for deriding Summer's weight is Trumpian.
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I'd add to this that it's weird to single out Summers for particular opprobrium for things that were not particularly controversial at the time (e.g., Glass-Steagall repeal). Especially when the general consensus is that those things haven't really been the problem (same).
