Wow, Mr. Levine takes great liberty with that quote from President Clinton -- as if to imply that Bill Clinton is singlehandedly to blame for all developing nations' economic woes. Let's look at the real, full quote for some context: So, the policy had been in place more than ten years before Bill Clinton took office. He only continued it in Haiti's rice crop industry; something which he says was a bad idea, not just in this instance, but historically. But apparently what Mr. Levine gets out of this is to blame Bill Clinton -- who actually admits that decade old policy was a bad idea -- for everything bad that ever happened from policies that were standard procedure for a decade before he ever took office?? GMAB. As for Larry Summers, you won't get any defense of him for me. I am still pissed that the Obama Administration sided with him over Dr. Christina Romer. I feel I should point out though, that Mr. Levine seems to conveniently overlook the fact that Gramm Leach Bilely would have passed pretty much anyway, regardless of any options that may have been available to Democrats at the time. Hell, many Democratic Congressman supported the act in the House of Representatives when the bill was first read! Further, GLB would have also likely survived a Presidential veto, another factor Mr. Levine seems to overlook. The House version of the bill had 80% support in the House after all; the votes to oppose it just weren't there, and that this fact seems to escape Mr. Levine and yet he continues to argue for a reality that simply just didn't exist at the time, is imo, one of the clearest signs of Mr. Levine's delusion. President Clinton however, did lead the effort to preserve and strengthen the Community Reinvestment Act as part of the compromise reached with Republican leaders back in the 1990's for not vetoing GLB. Seeing what was on the horizon, he at least was able to influence Democrats to put in place anti-redlining protections for minority communities. Funny how Mr. Levine forget this bit of history also, but then when you are looking for a bogeyman, facts that dispel your preferred narrative must be ignored. LOL. Well, the attacks were stale, and really, rather a brief portion of the article on the whole.