
About Larry Winters
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Professor Larry Winters is on a path to become one of America’s most noted economic commentators, earning his honorific by regularly professing his opinions about how to grow wealth inequality to appropriate levels, increase slack in the job market, and use concerns about the debt in whatever manner is most effective to incentivize innovation amongst high-income earners.
A colleague and frequent collaborator of a former Treasury Secretary, Professor Winters is perhaps best known for developing a univariate probabilistic economic model which overlays the basic principles of Econ 101 with the genius of the Mattel Corporation to create a unique personalized economic forecasting tool.
As one of the few remaining supporters of Dr. Larry Summers, Professor Winters has always assumed it also applied to him when President Obama said “I will always be grateful that at a time of great peril for our country, a man of Larry's brilliance, experience and judgment was willing to answer the call and lead our economic team." However, while the Summers Doctrine was described by The Economist as combining “a microeconomic "laissez faire" mentality with macroeconomic activism”, the Winters Dogma takes that approach a couple seasons further ahead, carrying the plot into a shark-jumping agglomeration of trickle-down perspectives, unfalsifiable probabilities, and a variety of cherry-picked numbers, charts and graphs — along with some convenient expressions of elite anguish about how the very policies he supports could harm the people who in the end, really should be relying on the creativity and charity of wealthy business owners.
Professor Winters aspires to follow the path of his colleague and serve as both a formal advisor and informal booster of a diverse array of financial players ranging from a big bank like Citigroup to a big hedge fund like D.E. Shaw to any crypto scheme which is open to retaining him for the publicity value his name provides. Winters did pioneering academic work drawing lines on graphs which purport to show that what goes up must come down, and frequently weighs in on the topics of the day discussed by other economists named Larry in outlets such as Bloomberg and Wall Street Week.
Winters is dedicated to growing his empire of online influence, and to advancing common-sense policy ideas like providing grants to billionaires who create jobs by hiring domestic workers, leveraging the return on investment that is provided by the extraordinary value of the marginal product of their labor.
In his video appearances and public commentary, Winters seeks to stagnate the debate on national and global economic policy so it does not move from a place which so elegantly serves him, Dr. Summers, and their fellow-travelers.