Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the Director of the White House’s National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Since returning to government in the Obama administration, he has come under fire for his numerous financial ties to Wall Street.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 30, 1954, Summers is the son of two economists, Robert Summers and Anita Summers, who are both professors at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the nephew of two Nobel laureates in economics: Paul Samuelson (sibling of Robert Summers, who, following an older brother’s example, changed the family name from Samuelson to Summers) and Kenneth Arrow (Anita Summers’s brother). He spent most of his childhood in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he attended Harriton High School.

At age 16, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he originally intended to study physics but soon switched to economics due to his strong interest in the matter (S.
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• Felix Salmon » Blog Archive » When will Larry Summers apologize …
  Top of the list, just by dint of his present importance in the government, is Larry Summers. In his tenure as a senior Treasury official during the Clinton years, Summers was intimately involved in laying the regulatory and …Read more

• Larry Summers' New Model « The Baseline Scenario
  Larry Summers spoke on Friday afternoon at the InterAmerican Development Bank in Washington DC. As he was addressing a group with much experience living through and dealing professionally as economists with major crises, … Read more
• naked capitalism: Guest Post: Channeling my inner Larry Summers
  Commentary on current economic and financial news. Read more
• Open Left:: Um, Sorry – Larry Summers Is No Robert Reich
  Robert Reich recently gave Obama’s economic team headed by Larry Summers an F for its management of the financial crisis. He’s a solid progressive and Summers is a Wall Street hack. Obama trying to conflate the two – or reassure … Read more
• Michelle Malkin » A prescription for Larry Summers
  A prescription for Larry Summers. By Michelle Malkin • April 23, 2009 03:41 PM. I’ve been pulling late nights on an offline project and Doug Powers is pitching in with guest-blogging the next few days while I try and wrap up. … Read more
• Hot News Today – Larry Summers on Meet the Press: Taxes
  Hot News Today Larry Summers on Meet the Press: Taxes. Read more

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