Sentences with phrase «economic adviser who»

Gary Cohn, President Trump's top economic adviser who reluctantly stood by Trump even after he failed to condemn neo-Nazis for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, has finally had it and is resigning from his post.

ALBANY — Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo offered the first detailed glimpse at his brain trust Thursday, naming economic advisers who will guide him through his transition amid pressure to make sure his administration reflects New York's diversity.

Not exact matches

As the president's chief economic adviser, Cohn has proven an ardent free - trader who strongly opposed Trump's plan to impose heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

In May, Ben Rabidoux, an Ontario financial adviser (and an unapologetic renter) who runs the Economic Analyst blog, illustrated the unprecedented gap that's opened between the cost of renting and owning with a series of fever graphs charting rents and housing prices in seven cities across the country.

In the meantime, Trump's China fans will have to console themselves with a visit to Hong Kong by ousted White House adviser Steve Bannon, who will share his views on the U.S. - China economic relationship at a conference here September 12.

Speculation swirled Wednesday about who President Donald Trump would choose to replace Gary Cohn as his top economic adviser, as observers say that person could provide a significant clue about the future of the president's agenda.

President Donald Trump on Thursday praised his top economic adviser Gary Cohn, who announced his resignation on Tuesday, and said he could return to the White House in the future.

North American stock markets had fallen sharply in late - morning trading following the departure of a top economic adviser in the White House who had been the leading internal opponent to the president's planned protectionist policies.

Peter Navarro, a University of California - Irvine professor who is the only formal Trump economic adviser with a deep academic background, noted that Detroit, home of U.S. autos, has seen a movement of auto manufacturing jobs to Mexico.

Now HR McMaster, national security adviser, and Gary Cohn, director of the national economic council, who have been held out as the president's most rational globally minded advisers have now taken to the Wall Street Journal to proclaim that «the world is not a global community.»

For months, congressional Republicans and Trump's former top economic adviser Gary Cohn — who resigned from office this week — have been trying to convince the president that imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is a bad idea.

Professor Ragan of McGill University, a highly respected economist who was a former adviser to Jim Flaherty, wrote in a recent report for the C. D. Howe Institute that there was nothing the Federal government could do to strengthen economic growth and job creation.

Uber's research team approached Professor Alan B. Krueger, a Princeton economist who previously was Mr. Obama's chief economic adviser, to conduct a joint survey of more than 600 of the company's drivers.

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.

He cold - called Navarro, a well - known trade - deficit hawk, who agreed to join the team as an economic adviser.

As expected, among the most enthusiastic cheerleaders of the reform are members of Trump's inner circle, including economic adviser Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who insists that the economic growth that results from the tax cuts will sufficiently self - finance the costs of the tax cut.

India is in a similar position to Bangladesh, points out Mr Basu, who used to be the chief economic adviser to India's government.

One of the architects of that Kansas plan, Stephen Moore, who was an economic adviser to Trump's presidential campaign, said the tax change would create «near immediate» growth in Kansas.

Michael Pyle, a former economic aide in the Obama administration who works at BlackRock, is an unpaid adviser to the campaign on finance policy.

Economic theory that predicts harmful market failures due to the information asymmetries that are present when ordinary investors rely on advisers who are far more expert than them, but highly conflicted

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.

Bernanke, who has criticized cryptocurrencies in the past, will be interviewed by Gene Sperling, the former national economic adviser under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

Now it appears that the prickly America First advocate who played a crucial role in driving Cohn to quit could, in fact, be taking his old position: Trump administration officials are reportedly considering White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as one of the leading candidates to head the National Economic Council (NEC).

Her efforts to focus on the difficulties of Americans in finding work was part of the reason liberal Democrats had urged President Obama to nominate her to succeed Bernanke instead of the other leading candidate, Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary who had been Obama's top economic adviser.

Larry Kudlow, Mr. Trump's new director of the National Economic Council, has a direct line to the president, as does John R. Bolton, his newly installed national security adviser, who was not Mr. Kelly's preferred candidate for the role.

Just when we thought Leigh's hole couldn't get any deeper, Stephen Koukoulas, who was senior economic adviser to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, dived in with a shovel, lamenting «a lot of instant experts on role of custodians» on Twitter, and asking «who retains voting rights?

Finchem, a 47 - year - old lawyer who was a deputy adviser for economic affairs under President Carter in the late 1970s, became the Tour's deputy commissioner in 1990.

Former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, who resigned over tariffs earlier this month, reached a tentative agreement with Trump to become his CIA director — but lost out on the role after Trump abruptly changed his mind.

Over the past two years, Nick Clegg and his advisers have been determinedly trying to focus the Lib Dem vote down to those who would vote for a European style social and economic liberal party, a triumphant strategy which has been reflected in the opinion polls.

Yet nominating Mnuchin to run Treasury could face resistance from progressives and financial reform advocates, who are urging the next president to appoint economic advisers willing to crack down on Wall Street.

Jim McColl, who is domiciled in Monaco with his # 800 million fortune, is an official economic adviser to Salmond.

The statewide probe led to indictments against eight men, and again shook the foundation of political ethics in the state: Among those indicted were Joseph Percoco, who'd been close to both Andrew Cuomo and his father; Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, former president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and a key economic adviser; and several top officials from LPCiminelli, a Buffalo contractor involved with millions in business as part of the state initiative.

His comments about «the economic gains of a recession» were met with anger by TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady, who said: «Not only is the government failing to deal with the living standards crisis, their advisers are revelling in the jobs and wage squeeze that is putting people's finances under strain.»

During the summer break the chancellor lost Karen Ward, who he had personally recruited to serve as his special economic adviser after a decade at HSBC.

Trump — who likes to surround himself with friends, confidantes and media - savvy supporters — recently hired former CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow as his economic adviser and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his legal team.

ALBANY — The Buffalo woman who recently told her story of being sexually harassed by Sam Hoyt, a former state lawmaker and top economic adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has filed a federal lawsuit against Hoyt for engaging in a «pattern of committing sexual harassment, assault, discrimination and retaliation» against her.

Rohatyn, who chairs the committee, also sits on Cuomo's council of economic advisers.

In the latest blow yesterday, Professor John Kay, who was one of Alex Salmond's hand - picked economic advisers, said the First Minister had been «rather stupid» not to outline a Plan B currency.

That finding was echoed several weeks ago when, during an economic forecasting meeting among legislative leaders and the governor's office, participants heard from advisers who noted that the tech industry is driving substantial job growth in New York City.

Stefanowski, who also has accepted about $ 150,000 in individual contributions, paid a $ 50,000 consulting fee to Arthur Laffer, a former economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan, presumably for a plan to eliminate the state income tax that he and Laffer promoted around the state in December.

Against this terrific backdrop we should be ten points ahead of a Labour Party with zero economic credibility and a leader who was Gordon Brown's special adviser in the Treasury for more than a decade and a member of his catastrophic Government.

The labs «provide essential capabilities for university and industrial researchers» and have made important contributions to America's economic and military might, Moniz reminded a room packed with science policy heavyweights, including 15 lab directors, National Cancer Institute chief Harold Varmus, former White House science adviser Neal Lane, and lawmakers and staffers who serve on key committees overseeing federal research agencies.

«It's like Davos of the art world,» Wendy Cromwell, a New York - based art adviser who is attending for the 19th time, said in reference to the World Economic Forum, which holds an annual conference in Davos, about two and a half hours away.

The team consisted of Cesar Conda, an adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and now a political consultant; Andrew Lundquist, the White House energy policy director, who is now an energy lobbyist; Kyle E. McSlarrow, the chairman of Dan Quayle's 2000 presidential campaign and now deputy secretary of energy; Robert C. McNally Jr., an energy and economic analyst who is now an investment banker; Karen Knutson, a deputy on energy policy and a former Republican Senate aide; and Marcus Peacock, an analyst on science and energy issues from the Office of Management and Budget.

But such was the spectacle of pending disaster that anyone who dared — or was allowed — to question whether the sky is really about to fall on us (and there were at least half a dozen of moderate anti-alarmists present), was branded a «usual suspect», a slur hurled against Andrei Illarionov (Putin» s economic adviser) by the IPCC» s Martin Parry.

Gary Cohn, Trump's chief economic adviser, who negotiated directly with climate ministers from other countries, resigned in March.

O'Neill permitted the defense to present testimony from Temple economic adviser Marguerite «Margo» Jackson, who said Constand once told her she could make money by falsely claiming she had been molested by a prominent person.

Kudlow, who serves as Trump's top economic adviser, told CNN on Sunday that tensions could be averted if China agrees to drop its predatory trade practices.