Summers: Thiel Fellows Is 'Most Misdirected Piece Of Philanthropy'
Nitasha Tiku · 10/11/13 12:00PMLarry Summers first public appearance since an "army of academic economists" quashed his bid for chair of the Federal Reserve, did not disappoint. At the Nantucket Project—New England's answer to Davos—Summers called Peter Thiel's scholarship to keep millennial entrepreneurs out of school "the single most misdirected bit of philanthropy this decade."