Given that both are highly experienced but one is a macho blabbermouth who can't get along with anyone and the other is a thoughtful, deliberate, careful person with a gift for finding consensus, you'd think this wouldn't be a question of gender at all. And the fact that it is, is frankly fairly shocking. Fed chairman is clearly no job for a blunderbuss like Larry Summers. Only an old boy network that simply wants to keep their own in power would even suggest such a thing.
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