Larry Summers

10 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2023 by Larry Summers · said 19 times in 12 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Jun 12, 2023 negative
Opinion
Larry Summers Opposes Arbitrary Caps on US Government Spending
“I certainly don't think we should be putting any arbitrary ceiling on the level of government spending, given the magnitude of both national security needs in our country and social needs in our country.”
Larry Summers Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 15:00 Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Summers: US tax gap will reach $8 trillion over next decade
“We have a gap between taxes that are owed, that everybody agrees are owed under the current law, and taxes actually collected that will total eight trillion dollars over the next 10 years.”
Larry Summers Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 15:28 Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Summers discloses personal investment in funds benefiting from carried interest
“I participate in funds, so I'm a beneficiary as well, but it's wrong.”
Larry Summers Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 19:38 Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2023 negative
Opinion
Summers: Rejects wealth tax, favors creating opportunity over fighting inequality
“I am not someone who believes we should have a wealth tax. I am not someone who believes we should soak the rich. I am somebody who believes in creating opportunity rather than going to war with inequality”
Larry Summers Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 26:04 Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2023 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Summers: Fed cannot lower inflation to target without an economic downturn
“My own view, and I've said this many times, is that what Samuel Johnson said about second marriage is true about soft landings. They represent the triumph of hope over experience, and I don't think we're likely to be able to bring inflation down to its target …”
Larry Summers Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 8:19 Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2023 negative
What-if
Summers: Fed should have raised rates earlier and stopped buying mortgages
“I would have recognized that Very substantially excess demand was developing. I would have moved to signal my awareness of that and to start putting my foot on the brakes much sooner than they did, and certainly as inflation was rising, as we were having a rec…”
Larry Summers Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 6:05 Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2023
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Larry Summers: The US Must Substantially Raise Tax Revenues
“Ultimately we are on an unsustainable path. And my view is that we're going to have to raise revenues quite substantially because I don't think there's going to be a lot of scope For cutting spending, given the way in which our population is aging, given the w…”
Larry Summers Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 13:09 Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
Summers: Fed interest rates do not need to reach Volcker-era levels
“There's nothing in the current situation that says to me that we need to get rates anywhere near where Volcker took them.”
Larry Summers Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 10:18 Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 12, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Summers: Delayed spending of 2021 stimulus drove 2022-2023 strength and inflation
“Part of the reason why inflation accelerated through much of twenty-twenty-two was that it was still being spent in twenty-twenty-two, and some of it is still going to be spent in twenty-twenty-three, and that's part of why the economy has seemed so strong, ev…”
Larry Summers Jun 12, 2023 ▶ 7:18 Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 12, 2024 negative
Opinion
Rabois: Europe is economically stagnant and functions as a museum
“You know, Larry Stummer's quote is still pretty good that Europe's a museum. I think that's probably pretty apt.”
Keith Rabois Jan 12, 2024 ▶ 1:13:59 Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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