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With Summers Out, Who WIll Be Tapped to Succeed Bernanke?

Clip: 9/16/2013 | 5m 36s

With Summers Out of the Running, Who WIll Be Tapped to Succeed Bernanke?

Citing likely tough confirmation proceedings, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers withdrew his name to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Jeffrey Brown gets analysis from David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal about who President Obama might nominate and the politics around Summers' surprise announcement.

09/16/2013 | Rating NR

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