Larry Summers and the Size of the Stimulus on Marketplace Radio

Marketplace radio had an interview with Larry Summers, formerly the head of President Obama's National Economic Council. At one point the interviewer questioned Summers about whether he viewed the size of the stimulus as too small. Summers responded that while he felt the economy needed a bigger stimulus, he thought the stimulus was the biggest package that it was possible to get through Congress at the time.

It would have been appropriate to ask, if Summers held this view, why neither he...