‘Woke’ Fed risks losing control of inflation, says former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers

10/14/21
 
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10/14/21:

Summers warns of 1970s-style inflation.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on Wednesday excoriated Federal Reserve policymakers for paying too much attention to social issues rather than a pandemic-induced inflation surge that’s triggered wild increases in many consumer prices.

“We have a generation of central bankers who are defining themselves by their ‘wokeness,’” Summers said Wednesday while speaking to a virtual conference organized by the Institute of International Finance. “They’re defining themselves by how socially concerned they are.”

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