Given how completely he dominated the National Conversation™️ in 2021-23, is it too much to ask now for some thoughtful contrition & reflection on his part & the part of all the outlets who constantly platformed him to knife Joe Biden & Jerome Powell in the face of the far right authoritarianism?
Yes. Zombie Fourth Estate and its army of plutocrat puppet zombies has no shame. You will never get apology or contrition or anything resembling appropriate human emotion from them with respect to their decades of abject failure.
Such a wanker that I almost felt sympathetic towards the Winklevoss twins in that one scene in The Social Network.
Summers’ strategy is to be consistent. Usually wrong but Big Journalism is more than willing to memory hole all those times to have a useful idiot for their narrative
It's certainly not too much to ask for, but don't hold your breath until we get it.
“Broken clock was right all along.”
Larry Summers has been right about 9 of the last 2 economic downturns. Can't beat that record!
“He was right” — amazing. First, he was never right. And now he’s been proven conclusively wrong. And not a single person involved with any of those articles give a single shit, least of all Larry Summers.
The “girls are not good at math” guy, as I call him. I heard Larry Summers on New Yorker Radio Hour and he sucked. Insulted presidents of various colleges for being dumb, then cut off the host and uttered hollow snide remarks.
Summers had been wrong about literally everything ever