President Obama appointed Lawrence Summers as his National Economic Council Director. Summers was "born into a Jewish family" (Wikipedia). He's the son of two economists, Robert Summers and Anita Summers, who are both professors at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the nephew of two Nobel laureates in economics: Paul Samuelson (brother of Robert Summers, who, following yet another brother's example, changed the family name from Samuelson to Summers) and Kenneth Arrow (Anita Summers' brother). Surprise: Kenneth Arrow is Jewish too. Presumably, so is his sister Anita.
Paul Volcker is Jewish. So is Tim Geithner. So is Jared Bernstein, Biden's chief economic advisor. Bernanke. Friedman. Greenspan. Gotta wonder why there is such an affinity between Jews and the study of economics. THEN we gotta wonder why Jews are drawn to science, entertainment, medicine, and business. Hmmm. I think we should leave Bernie Madoff out of this equation.
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Well, Bernie may be an embarrassment, but many people would say the same about Geithner, Bernanke and Greenspan...and Summers. Personally, I'm not so proud.
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