> However he has tended to speak his mind too freely for a job requiring the approval of our timid politicians. Krugman thinks the problem with Summers would h

> However he has tended to speak his mind too freely for a job requiring the approval of our timid politicians. Krugman thinks the problem with Summers would have been too much timidity: "Summers, on the other hand, while he often expresses unconventional views when not in office, has a strong tendency to revert to conventionality when in office." ... "So the apparent decision to appoint Summers is a strong anti-regime-shift signal on Obama’s part." (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/summers-the-shiftless/?_r=0 http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/summers-the-shif...)