In run up to a vote on unlocking the second tranche of bailout funds to Wall Street, Summers promised progressive Senators like Jeff Merkley he would devote a significant portion of this package directly to families facing foreclosure – $50 to $100 billion https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-statement-on-troubled-asset-relief-program-vote">https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/pres...
Because of the broken promise on helping families thru TARP and decades of deregulation that ruined the economy, when Obama floated Summers for Fed Chair, a coalition of progressive and populist Senators killed it. Here& #39;s the full story from @ryangrim https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/larry-summers-federal-reserve_n_3935861.html">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/1...
when Yellen& #39;s term ended, I wrote a little recollection of how astounding it was Larry Summers didn& #39;t become Fed Chair https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100227453074286&set=a.538476446996&type=3&theater">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php...
"Few people are more responsible for the financial deregulation that led to great recession -- millions of families losing their homes, their livelihoods, and their way of life, than Larry Summers."
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