The Exiled on Larry Summers

In addition to the War Nerd, pretty much everything from The Exiled Online is pretty amaxing stuff, and I highly recommend it.

Case in point, Mark Ames review of the life and times of Lawrence Summers:

• In 1991 he authored a memo calling Africa "Under Pulluted."
• 1n 1982 he worked on Reagan's council of economic advisers helping to deregulate banking.
• In 1990, his policies for economic shock therapy in Lithuania literally had citizens of the Baltic republic killing themselves at twice the rate of other recently liberalized nations, which had the Lithuanians voting the Communists back into power in 1992.
• His role in corruption, along with protege Andrei Schleifer, in the "liberalization" of the Russian economy.

Let's be clear here, in any sane place, and Washington, DC is apparently not a sane place, not only would this man not be considered for a public position, but just on the basis of his calling Africa, "Under Polluted", he would be shunned from polite society.

The man is a corrupt and incompetent ideologue, and the idea that he is being considered as Secretary of the Treasure, and that he was Secretary of the Treasury, leaves me stunned.