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Summers “had an unbelievable appetite” for understanding the economics of the decisions being made, says Stein, who has known Summers since the mid-80s when Stein first began as an associate professor at the Business School...
...Stein also described a less familiar experience—presidential briefings. “[Obama] was keenly interested,” Stein says. One briefing developed into a six hour meeting, he says...
Throughout the experience in Washington, Stein explains, there was a great sense of urgency. At the worst point, “you felt like you were staring into the abyss...
...situation made for late nights at work and little social life. Stein lived “like a college kid again,” he says—out of a suitcase, without a car, eating Chinese food and returning home to Massachusetts on weekends—if the economy allowed—to be with his family...
...Stein] really was the right man at the right time,” says University of Chicago Business School Professor Anil K. Kashyap, who has been working with Stein for more than 20 years. “I give the President and Larry Summers a lot of credit. They convinced him to uproot his life and his teaching to go down there...