Sentences with phrase «economic council said»

Chinese officials are hoping to mollify President Trump's oft - stated displeasure with America's huge trade imbalance with China by pledging to import «at least $ 200 billion» more in made - in - the - USA products, the director of the White House National Economic Council said Friday.

This rhetoric continued after the election: Both Trump's Treasury secretary and the director of his National Economic Council said the plan wouldn't cut taxes on the rich.

Not exact matches

«Governing Council welcomes the recent strength in economic data and wants to see more of it in order to be more confident that growth is on solid footing,» said Carolyn Wilkins, the senior deputy governor, who joined Poloz at the press conference.

Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

That's an economic disadvantage for each of the 21 municipalities and for British Columbia,» says Greg D'Avignon, president and CEO of the Business Council of B.C..

... It's the costs associated with building and the difficulty in building anything in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco,» said Micah Weinberg, president of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, which counts Adobe, Airbnb, Google, Lyft, and many others in tech among its members.

«I know we are competing against every other metropolitan area in the nation,» said Greg Prestemon, CEO of the St. Charles County Economic Development Council (EDC).

President Donald Trump's Council of Economic Advisors said the bill could boost economic growth by 3 % to 5 % a year, while supporters said the boost would be aroEconomic Advisors said the bill could boost economic growth by 3 % to 5 % a year, while supporters said the boost would be aroeconomic growth by 3 % to 5 % a year, while supporters said the boost would be around 4 %.

The Federal Reserve appears to be ready to increase interest rates sooner than many economists were expecting, said Alan Krueger, former chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

The park posted a net loss of HK$ 148 million ($ 19 million) for the year, dropping into the red after three straight years of profits, Hong Kong's Legislative Council Panel on Economic Development said in a report released on Monday.

«The most excited group out there are big CEOs, about our tax plan,» says ex-Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn, who runs the National Economic Council in the Trump White House, in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood.

«Larry Kudlow will be my Chief Economic Advisor as Director of the National Economic Council,» Trump said.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

«The president owns this plan; don't be mistaken,» said Gary Cohn, director of the White House National Economic Council.

«Larry Kudlow was offered, and accepted, the position of Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council,» Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, said in a statement Wednesday.

Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council and President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, said on March 6 that he wouldEconomic Council and President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, said on March 6 that he wouldeconomic adviser, said on March 6 that he would resign.

«There's been an enormous effort to simplify things a heck of a lot,» Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett says.

«The lower we go, we think the more attractive the United States becomes,» said Cohn, director of the National Economic Council.

«Even if you think Cohn was misguided or mistaken on policy issues, everything he did as Director of the National Economic Council he did for the right reasons,» Cramer said.

Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, said the bill aimed to hold opioid manufacturers accountable for their role in the epidemic and force them to help pay for the crisis, which the White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated cost more than $ 500 billion in 2015..

Elon Musk said he wasn't about to join Uber's CEO in quitting President Trump's economic advisory council, and he's sticking to his guns in the wake of a meeting on Feb. 3.

«It's obviously a rapidly changing economic environment we're finding ourselves in,» said Jock Finlayson, vice-president of the Business Council of B.C. and an advisor to the finance minister through the B.C. Economic Forecast economic environment we're finding ourselves in,» said Jock Finlayson, vice-president of the Business Council of B.C. and an advisor to the finance minister through the B.C. Economic Forecast Economic Forecast Council.

Evaluating Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, and Commerce Secretary - designate Wilbur Ross, Buffett said: «They're Wall Street guys.

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who was a top economic advisor to President Obama, said Tuesday that all the CEOs on the advisory councils should resign.

Fifth, President Trump has expressed concern about the magnitude of the trade deficit and his chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers said that «a corporate tax cut to 20 percent would dramatically reduce the trade deficit.»

«While the recovery was gaining traction before sequestration took effect, these arbitrary and unnecessary cuts to government services will be a headwind in the months to come, and will cut key investments in the nation's future competitiveness,» Alan B. Krueger, the chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said in a statement.

Meanwhile, people close to the president said he is simmering with displeasure over what he considers personal disloyalty from National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, who criticized Trump's responses to a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12.

«A Fed chair not only has to have good views on substance but also the managerial skills and personality to win over a large committee,» said Christina Romer, who was chairman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, struck a more cautious note, saying that Greece remained a «potential accident».

«It could bring some control to the Wild West of the third parties operating on these platforms,» said Karen Kornbluh, a senior fellow for digital policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and former ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development under the Obama administration.

«People tend to confuse what the government can do with what these individual companies can do,» said Karen Kornbluh, a senior fellow for digital policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and former ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development under the Obama administration.

Don't Blame the Messenger: New National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow recently said CBO is «always wrong, especially, with regards to tax cuts.»

High school seniors today are more likely than previous generations to say that making a contribution to society is extremely important to them, according to an October 2014 report from The White House's Council of Economic Advisors.

«We've restored economic policies to where a sensible, rational country would put them,» said economist Kevin Hassett, head of Trump's Council of Economic Aeconomic policies to where a sensible, rational country would put them,» said economist Kevin Hassett, head of Trump's Council of Economic AEconomic Advisers.

«Their budget effectively assumes that tax cuts don't pay for themselves,» said Jason Furman, a Harvard professor who was head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.

«Exports of American goods and services constitute a critical foundation of the U.S. economy and are a key component of economic growth both nationally and in Arkansas,» said Lenka Horakova, chair of the Export Council.

Pence's comments on Russia's incursions into Ukraine will be closely parsed to see whether Trump will be willing to trade off U.S. economic sanctions to achieve other security goals, said Vershbow, now with the Atlantic Council.

Christina Romer, the chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said last fall, «By mid-2010, fiscal stimulus will likely be contributing little to further growth,» adding that she didn't expect unemployment to fall significantly until 2011.

«The costs of inadequate infrastructure investment are exhibited all around us,» said a report by the National Economic Council and the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

OTTAWA, December 14, 2017 - In his 2018 Budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau should table a comprehensive plan to accelerate economic growth and strengthen Canada's ability to attract investment, the Business Council of Canada says.

Analysts say that Navarro would be a tradition - breaking choice for director of the National Economic Council.

Asked whether he had considered resigning after Charlottesville, Cohn said he was under «tremendous pressure» both to resign and to stay in his job as the director of the National Economic Council.

In a US - China Business Council survey, 57 percent of U.S. companies operating in China say they have yet to see any impact from a sweeping package of economic reforms Xi unveiled four years ago.

Trump pressed Xi to fully implement the economic sanctions on Pyongyang authorized by the United Nations Security Council, Tillerson said, and Xi outlined additional steps his government is taking to crack down on banks doing business with the North.

Tax cuts will pay for themselves through economic growth, says Council of Economic Advisers chief Kevin economic growth, says Council of Economic Advisers chief Kevin Economic Advisers chief Kevin Hassett.

«TPP withdrawal will slow U.S. [economic] growth, cost American jobs, & weaken U.S. standing in Asia / world,» said Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said in a tweet early Monday.

The NSW Irrigators» Council chief executive, Andrew Gregson, said the assessment of the economic impact of the plan released so far had been woeful.

Duffy, a former mayor of Rochester, said his job as the chairman of the governor's regional economic councils was that of a «convener» who nonetheless was able to establish contacts with the state's business community.

Cllr Porter said councils could not afford EU fines in the current economic climate, giving them an incentive to recycle.

«From what we're hearing, the Regional Economic Development Councils will move ahead as they had previously existed, but again that language has yet to be determined in the final budget,» he said.