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Ryan Lizza

He was right about inflation. Biden wasn't. Here's what Larry Summers says is coming next.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers speaks. | Rob Kim/Getty Images

Ryan caught up with the former treasury secretary — and thorn in the side of Biden White House economists — Larry Summers on the sidelines of the Aspen Security Forum for a wide-ranging interview about last 18 months of economic debates, why so many policymakers got the inflation debate wrong, what Summers thinks about Joe Manchin blowing up Build Back Better over inflation concerns, what Biden — and Pelosi — are getting wrong in their approach to China, and why we are almost certainly headed into a painful recession.

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