Larry Summers Blasts 'Death Panel' Style Ads on Finance Reform

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/18/Larry_Summers_The_Future_of_Global_Finance

Larry Summers, Director of the National Economic Council, addresses accusations made in ads funded by the Chamber of Commerce attacking the White House's proposed agency to protect consumer rights. Summers compares the advertisements to the "death panel ads" produced by opponents of healthcare reform. "Those with an argument, make it," he says. "Those without a good argument, try to scare people."

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A year after the economic crisis shifted into high gear, financial scholars and policymakers gathered at Georgetown for the Global Finance Conference presented by the McDonough School of Business and the Financial Times.

Larry Summers, economist and the Director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama, tells the audience that his concerns remain in commercial real estate and that the availability of credit and capital remain tight, but says there are signs of economic normalization.

"We know that our economy will be stronger than ever if we commit ourselves to the work that needs to done today," says Summers. "It would be irresponsible for us to not learn the lessons of what is happening." - Georgetown University

Lawrence H. Summers is the Director of the National Economic Council. He was appointed by President Barack H. Obama on November 24, 2008.

Until January, he was the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. He served as the 27th president of Harvard University from July 2001 until June 2006. From 1999 to 2001, he served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury following his earlier service as Deputy and Under Secretary of the Treasury and as Chief Economist of the World Bank.

Summers has taught economics at Harvard and MIT. His research contributions were recognized when he received the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40, and when he was the first social scientist to receive the National Science Foundations Alan T. Waterman Award for outstanding scientific achievement. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and has written extensively on economic analysis and policy publishing over 150 articles in professional economic journals.

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[youkoshi]

@tehila001 If you're really a Harvard grad, why do you type like an idiot?

[tehila001]

Someone get this fat stupid punk off the stage please... I went to harvard also, and lemme tell you, there are many people smarter than this fat ass. Hes more conniving and shameless than he is brilliant. TAKE IT FROM A HARVARD GRAD, DO NOT BE FOOLED INTO THINKING THIS FAT LAZY NE"ER DO WELL IS ANYTHING BUT THAT. ANYONE WHO TALKS IN THIS POMPOUS AND GOD-AWFUL BORING WAY IS NO MORE AND NO LESS THAN A GOOD FOR NOTHING FAT-ASS. PERIOD, END OF STORY.

[1thruZ]

He's a brilliant mind but he sure isn't interesting to listen to.

[Daniel44125]

@vdfgsrthsrt You're the idiot. You short moronic statement explains why you're a peasant.

Mercantilism/corporatism/facis­m is when the government chooses winners and losers. All are a form of socialism.

Capitalism is a natural phenomenon that occurs when government stays out of it

[vdfgsrthsrt]

@Daniel44125 YOUR AN IDIOT ... CAPITALISM... THE GOVERMENT CHOOSES WHO GETS RICH ..ROBERT RUBEN ALAN GREENSPAN ECT THERES NO MIDDLE CLASS THERES THE WEALTHY THEN THERES US LITTLE PUPPETS ...

[jhiken]

Evil Bastard

[JudenRaus2010]

@nichols9286

filthy kike

lets expel these lying heebs b4 its too late

[nichols9286]

Hey Larry! It was called the CFTC in the 1990s! Remember that? You should - you helped shut it down.

[GBS990]

How many layers of government regulation should there be? The government was the ones that required the banks to make sub prime loans, ala Barnie Frank. If the press would do its job of reporting fraud, both in the private sector and government, we would not have lunatic videos like this one.

[Daniel44125]

My argument is sound. I attacked it from multiple angles with others besides you. I really am not here to educate or debate Capitalism. Read the Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek Read Human Action by Ludwig von Mises Read some Murray Rothbard. Read even Milton Friedman.