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Former Treasury Secretary On Consumer Prices, Inflation, U.S. Role In Global Pandemic Efforts

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers at FOX Studios in January 2015 in New York. (Rob Kim/Getty Images)
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers at FOX Studios in January 2015 in New York. (Rob Kim/Getty Images)

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Larry Summers, who was Treasury Secretary under former President Bill Clinton, director of the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama. He’s now president emeritus of Harvard University.

Summers discusses the risks of inflation and how government spending on infrastructure will strengthen the economy.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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