Lawrence Summers

In 2024 Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shared the Nobel prize in economics with Simon Johnson and James Robinson for work on how institutions shape prosperity

One year ago -on April 2nd, 2025, US President Donald Trump had his famous Liberation Day tariff announcement

In this second of a two-part series, The Guardian has focused on Epstein’s links to high-profile people in business and the arts — including the renowned economist and former US treasury secretary Larry Summers, the New York film director Woody Allen and Jes Stalay, the former head of Barclays

Both men deny wrongdoing related to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who died by suicide in jail in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges

In this two-part series, the Guardian analyses correspondence between more than 30 people and Epstein, and visualises the online relationships of seven high-profile figures

Each was also asked by the Democratic side whether Trump should come before the committee himself, given his own known past ties to the late financier and sex trafficker

A Harvard mathematics professor was placed on administrative leave after his Epstein ties were exposed just hours after former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers resigned from teaching at the college due to his own links

The latest release of documents tied to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation sent fresh shockwaves through Hollywood, sweeping up boldface names across music, film and royalty

Andrew Lownie, whose searing 2025 biography of former British prince Andrew Mountbattern-Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson laid bare their profligate lifestyle and reckless impunity, recently asked his sources if Andrew was worried about fresh revelations over his links to Jeffrey Epstein

The former Prince Andrew was officially stripped of his royal titles in late 2025 as a result of his ties with Epstein, given new scrutiny after the House Oversight Committee released a trove of files last year

As files associated with the disgraced former financier and noted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein trickle out, critics of the Justice Department’s handling of the case — particularly its liberal use of redactions to protect those in power, rather than victims — are beginning to name what’s going on

Former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland has reportedly been charged with aggravated corruption as investigators probe alleged links to late US financier Epstein

Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors was scrambling to raise a Series D funding round in 2017

The release came weeks after the deadline set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act which was signed into law by US President Donald Trump in November and required a full release of all Epstein-related documents

Buried among the roughly 3 million pages of Justice Department documents is a brief exchange revealing disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein discussing the removal of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell with then–Trump advisor Steve Bannon

The US Justice Department on Friday released a massive trove of documents linked to its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, reigniting controversial claims involving Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, including allegations related to an alleged sexually transmitted disease

On Friday, the US Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, along with over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images