Larry Summers shouldn't be President of the World Bank because he helped defraud both the US government, and Russia
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Submitted by lambert on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:08am
Or maybe that's a qualification for the job, now that I think about it. Go read this excellent post from mathbabe. This seems to sum it all up:
Maybe you’d think that getting sued by the US Government and losing $40 million might lose your job as a Harvard Professor. But you’d be wrong.
Not Summers, but Summers's BFF, one Andrei Shleifer.
Lovely museums, Harvard. Fine library.
And a cesspit of corruption. Never mind Summers lost his job; why was he even in the running? Summers then failed upward to ruin economic policy for The Drone King. Yay!

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