{"id":576557,"date":"2010-05-24T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2010-05-24T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:09:22","slug":"why-larry-summers-may-not-make-it-until-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576557","title":{"rendered":"Why Larry Summers may not make it until 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicprincipals.com\/issues\/2010.05.23\/1145.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+EconomicPrincipals+(Economic+Principals)\">David Warsh<\/a> dismisses reports that Larry Summers may stick around longer than many in Washington expect:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Defense is one possibility. Who wants to be seen as a lame duck while there are eight months to go on the clock \u2013 including the mid-term-elections? Offense is equally likely. No doubt the president\u00a0<em>would<\/em> like to keep his chief economic adviser for another eighteen months.\u00a0 Perhaps the administration is lobbying Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>Summers\u2019 other opportunities weigh in the balance: a successful marriage to Harvard English professor Elisa New (between them they have six children, all from previous marriages); the prerogatives that come with being one of Harvard\u2019s fewer than twenty university professors, including the freedom to teach precisely what and where he wishes (or not at all); membership on the executive committee of an economics department that is one of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/nrc\">three or four<\/a> best in the nation; and, of course, the famous day-a-week of consulting time that Harvard professors are permitted to spend in the moneyed world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Warsh dismisses reports that Larry Summers may stick around longer than many in Washington expect: Defense is one possibility. Who wants to be seen as a lame duck while there are eight months to go on the clock \u2013 including the mid-term-elections? Offense is equally likely. No doubt the president\u00a0would like to keep his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}