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April 21, 2011

Contrarian Speculation On Wall Street's Future

Peter Coclanis, The American

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By Peter A. Coclanis Thursday, April 21, 2011

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Larry Summers is really, really smart. All discussions regarding Summers start with bloodlines: He’s the son of two distinguished economists, and the nephew of not one, but two Nobel laureates in economics (Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow). That said, Summers made the most of genetic good fortune, whizzing through the Massachusetts Institute of...

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