Summers Advises Next Treasury Chief to Return to Strong Dollar

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Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has advice for whoever has his old job next year: Don’t mess with the dollar.

Summers wants President-elect Joe Biden’s first Treasury chief to return to the so-called strong dollar policy that the Trump administration abandoned.