Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Larry Summers Axed From Think Tank Roles

Here is more from the New York Times:

Larry Summers, Harvard’s former president and a former Treasury secretary, said Monday that he would be stepping back from public commitments following the release of emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender. 

The Yale Budget Lab said Mr. Summers has indicated he would be withdrawing from his role in its advisory group. The Hamilton Project, an economics policy arm of the Brookings Institution, said the same. A spokeswoman for the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, said Mr. Summers would be ending his fellowship there immediately. The Center for Global Development, another think tank, said Mr. Summers was stepping down as board chair.  

 

Summers was the one of the leads of the economic policy plank of CAP's so-called Project 2029, a Democratic policy blueprint for the 2028 presidential elections.