Summers denied his financial-sector payments conditioned crisis policy.
Evidence
Summers has been contemptuous of the few journalists who have had the temerity to suggest that this revolving door has had any conditioning effect on his behavior in the Obama administration. Although Summers has long been associated with the Democratic Party, he has been an unapologetic neoliberal for most of his career. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 558
Categorization
- QUESTION: Does publishing a personal financial disclosure that exposes $17-39M of bank-derived wealth make a credible denial of conditioning possible? What would that denial even consist of?
- XREF: connects to: Summers avoided substantive accountability for his role in the crisis — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 2108