
“Yes, Summers is smarter than we are. Yes, he has a better academic record. Yes, he is a real economist. Yes, he has widespread political support and a winning personality. But beyond those things, studies find that people with lower IQs make better truck drivers than people with high IQs. Which puts the critical question right out in the open: What kind of thing is running a central bank? And how smart do you have to be to be a successful central banker?”
http://dailyreckoning.com/larry-summers-was-a-lousy-choice-anyway/
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