Sentences with phrase «economic policy council»
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement that the Saturday session included Larry Summers, director of the Economic Policy Council, and Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, along with other staff members.
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic speaks on the economic outlook and monetary policy before the World Affairs Council, Jacksonville - 1715 GMT.
Larry Kudlow, National Economic Council director, discusses the Trump administration's trade policies as a delegation gets set to go to China to discuss bilateral trade.
** PALM BEACH - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans and Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan participate in moderated discussion on current economic conditions and monetary policy before the American Council of Life Insurers Executive Roundtable - 2000 GMT.
He was a staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan from 1986 - 87, an adviser at the New York Fed from 1991 - 92 and 1995 - 97, and an assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury from 20Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan from 1986 - 87, an adviser at the New York Fed from 1991 - 92 and 1995 - 97, and an assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury from 20economic policy at the Treasury from 2002 - 03.
Knight would be the second top economic policy aide to leave the White House in recent weeks after Gary Cohn, the former head of the council, resigned last month over his disagreement with the president's implementation of steel and aluminum tariffs.
In the early days of the administration, Kudlow was considered to be chair of the Council of Economic Advisers but was passed over because of his vocal disagreement with Trump on trade policy.
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.
«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.
We joined this council with the intent to be a voice for working people and real hope that it would result in positive economic policy, but it has become yet another broken promise on the President's record.
«As you consider the Administration's proposal, I ask that you consider policies that will bridge the partisan divide and serve the myriad needs of communities across the country — including those of Nevada,» Sen. Catherine Cortez - Masto of Nevada wrote in a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council.
Incoming National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow speaks with the «Closing Bell» news desk about trade and economic pEconomic Council Director Larry Kudlow speaks with the «Closing Bell» news desk about trade and economic peconomic policies.
Obama and Zuckerberg will take the stage at the annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit, «an event that will showcase the importance of empowering global entrepreneurs to make communities around the world more economically prosperous and secure,» Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Jason Zients wrote in a blog post.
«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.
Given these positive surprises, and because monetary policy must be forward - looking to achieve our inflation target, Governing Council's discussions focused on three main issues: first, the extent to which recent strength is signalling stronger economic momentum in Canada and globally; second, how heightened levels of uncertainty, particularly about US tax and trade policies, should be incorporated in our outlook; and third, how much excess capacity the economy currently has, and the growth rate of potential output going forward.
If you're an economist with a background in academic and policy research — which Kevin Hassett is — then becoming chair of the Council of Economic Advisers is pretty much a dream job.
Administration members who attended the signing included White House counsel Donald McGahn; chief of staff Reince Priebus; Jared Kushner, domestic policy director Andrew Bremberg; and National Economic Council director Director Gary Cohn.
During the past two decades, he has served in a series of senior policy positions in Washington, D.C., including the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama and Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank.
And the Council of Economic Advisers announced that policies such as work flexibility «lead to higher labor force participation, greater labor productivity and work engagement, and better allocation of talent across the economy.»
«Constructive economic and regulatory policies are not enough and will not matter if we do not address the divisions in our country,» JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon, a member of Trump's «Strategy & Policy Forum,» wrote to his employees Wednesday after the councils were disbanded.
Cohn did not publicly support Trump during the campaign, but Kushner invited him in to meet with the president - elect during the transition, and Cohn apparently really wowed him — after a few more meetings, he was named National Economic Council director, making him the top economic policy staffer in the WhitEconomic Council director, making him the top economic policy staffer in the Whiteconomic policy staffer in the White House.
Some went to high - profile, high - pressure jobs like Robert E. Rubin, a former senior partner, who is now one of President Clinton's trusted policy advisers as the head of the National Economic Council.
Chaired by Michael Horgan, the C.D. Howe Institute's Fiscal and Tax Competitiveness Council oversees research and development of policy recommendations to foster effective and efficient spending and tax programs, and ensures that Canadian fiscal policy supports economic dynamism and sustainable income growth.
As special assistant to the president for Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy at the National Economic Council, Trump chose Michael Catanzaro, a fossil fuel lobbyist.
He is the only Canadian member of the US Council on Competitiveness and an internationally renowned voice on innovation strategy, competitiveness and international economic policy.
The White House Council of Economic Advisers has released a 30 - page strategy for reducing drug costs, and it calls current policies «neither wise nor just.»
«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.
«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.
Lighthizer, who is seen as solidifying his control over trade policy, is considered more aggressive about overhauling NAFTA than is Gary Cohn, head of Trump's National Economic Council.
By advocating for policy changes, the Council seeks to create an economic model in which what is good for business is good for the environment and society.
A Review of the Economic Council's Interim Report on Competition Policy, by James Gillies.
The Council, the Economy, and the Potential of the Seventies, by the Canadian Economic Policy Committee.
The Trump administration's trade policy team — USTR Robert Lighthizer, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, and National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro — is in Beijing this week, presumably to get China to commit to certain actions that would enable tensions to be dialed down.
The Washington Post counts 37 high - level Trump aides or advisers who've resigned or been fired, including a chief of staff, multiple agency heads, and — importantly, given the administration's need to build a bench for its future — deputy directors of the National Economic Council, the National Security Council, and the Domestic Policy Council, as well as multiple deputy chiefs of staff.
Mr. Melby was a senior staff member on the National Security Council from 1987 to 1993, during which he participated in bilateral and multilateral trade and economic negotiations, including the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Uruguay Round, bilateral economic issues, international energy policy and export controls.
Jennifer facilitates the contribution of the Business Council of Australia's CEO members across a policy agenda that includes economic policy and competitiveness; regulation; infrastructure and sustainable growth; labour market, skills and education; engagement with Indigenous Australians, global engagement; healthcare policy; and innovation.
(xxix) the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council;
On trade policy, he wanted tougher measures against China but faced opposition from National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs COO.
The Finance Minister has also created an Advisory Council on Economic Growth to provide policy recommendations that would strengthen stronger long - term economic growth — the same issues being examined by the Finance CoEconomic Growth to provide policy recommendations that would strengthen stronger long - term economic growth — the same issues being examined by the Finance Coeconomic growth — the same issues being examined by the Finance Committee.
The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council (APEC) is a policy research organization whose mandate is to further economic progress in Atlantic Canada and build synergies among its stakeholders to strengthen the region's position in a rapidly changinEconomic Council (APEC) is a policy research organization whose mandate is to further economic progress in Atlantic Canada and build synergies among its stakeholders to strengthen the region's position in a rapidly changineconomic progress in Atlantic Canada and build synergies among its stakeholders to strengthen the region's position in a rapidly changing world.
«Strong action on the part of the Reserve Bank of reversing the policy will be called for only if inflation shows very strong signs of decline,» C. Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, told CNBC - TV18 Thursday.
He previously served as Senior Economist for Trade for President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers and as a member of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's Policy Planning Staff.
Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.
Blank served on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and is dean of the Gerald B. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
The council's policy did not support groups that «discriminate on the basis of ancestry, nationality, creed, philosophy, economic disadvantage, physical disability, mental illness or disorders, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.»
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By Luke Tate, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Mobility, White House Domestic Policy Council & Josh Miller, Director of Product Management, White House Office of Digital Strategy
CBC's report includes sensible recommendations for the Cuomo administration's economic development policy and ten newly created Regional Councils.
Evaluating Decision Making Procedures for Regional Funding Allocations, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and carried out by Dr Sarah Ayres of the School for Policy Studies at Bristol University.