Sentences with phrase «economic advisers said»

One of President Barack Obama's top economic advisers said abusive trading practices are costing workers billions of dollars in retirement savings each year and called for stricter rules on Wall Street brokers.

Merkel said that her «entire council» of economic advisers says Greek debt should be restructured, advice that she is not prepared to take.

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WHAT THEY SAID: «Wealthy Americans are not getting a tax cut,» Gary Cohn, Trump's top economic adviser, said Sept. 28 on ABC's «Good Morning America.&raSAID: «Wealthy Americans are not getting a tax cut,» Gary Cohn, Trump's top economic adviser, said Sept. 28 on ABC's «Good Morning America.&rasaid Sept. 28 on ABC's «Good Morning America.»

«The proposition that held from the 1950s until recently is that as businesses did well, so would workers,» says Robert Shapiro, a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy and former economic adviser to President Bill Clinton.

BEIJING, May 2 (Reuters)- Chinese President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser, Vice Premier Liu He, will meet a top - level U.S. trade delegation in Beijing this week, the government said on Wednesday, amid a festering dispute between the world's two largest economies.

BEIJING, May 2 - Chinese President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser, Vice Premier Liu He, will meet a top - level U.S. trade delegation in Beijing this week, the government said on Wednesday, amid a festering dispute between the world's two largest economies.

«Her problem is to remind people of her strengths and how her strengths are what the country needs right now,» says Robert Shapiro, an economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton and to Hillary Clinton when she was in the Senate, and a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy.

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.

«If I'm a small - business person, the one thing I don't want to see is the expiration of the payroll tax cuts, because I'd like to have my customers with a bit of a boost to their paycheck,» says Jared Bernstein, a former top economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden.

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.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he might renominate Janet Yellen to serve a second term as Federal Reserve chairwoman, but he is also considering his economic adviser Gary Cohn for the post.

Larry Summers, then the president's chief economic adviser, also expressed doubts in private meetings, she said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser, Vice Premier Liu He, will meet a top - level U.S. trade delegation in Beijing this week, state media said on Wednesday, amid a festering trade dispute between China and the United States.

WASHINGTON Gary Cohn, the top economic adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump and a voice for Wall Street in the White House, said on Tuesday he would resign, a move that came after he lost a fight over Trump's plans for hefty steel and aluminum import tariffs.

«There's a broad transformation within health care that can happen — not where a startup becomes Apple, but where startups work with big health care institutions and providers to transform how they deliver care,» says Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist, former adviser to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and director of the health care program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

WASHINGTON — With trade tensions mounting between the United States and China, President Trump said he would dispatch his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and other top economic advisers to Beijing next week to try to forestall an all - out trade war.

Contradicting rumors of a government - backed «Lakshmi Coin,» India's chief economic adviser has said that the government will not issue cryptocurrency.

Mr. Musk said on Twitter this week that the group of economic advisers planned to come to some sort of «consensus» on immigration, and to influence Mr. Trump by engaging directly with him rather than cutting off ties completely.

The new White House economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said Sunday that a «coalition of the willing» — including Canada, much of Europe and Australia — was being formed to pressure China and that the U.S. would demand that the World Trade Organization, an arbiter of trade disputes, be stricter on Beijing.

In September 2017, RBI Executive Director Sudarshan Sen said that the bank had a «group of people» examining fiat cryptocurrencies as an alternative to the Indian rupee, but one month later, India's chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, shot down reports of a government - issued «Lakshmi Coin.»

Updated President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, plans to resign in the coming weeks, White House officials reportedly said on Tuesday.

«This is a step in the wrong direction,» said Doug Holtz - Eakin, president of the right - leaning American Action Forum and an economic adviser to GOP politicians.

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.

Trump's chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, said in Sicily that the president was concerned that the U.S. was falling behind India and China in manufacturing.

«There's no trade war here,» Larry Kudlow, Mr. Trump's new top economic adviser, said in an interview on Fox Business Network.

«Everybody needs the kinds of cheaper panels, not only in China, but also the world,» said Li Junfeng, a senior Chinese economic adviser and the architect of many of China's renewable energy policies, at The New York Times's Climate Tech conference on Thursday in San Francisco.

Opponents of the estate tax like to pretend that it's really about a defense of small farmers, such as when White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn said, «You have a family farm that's big enough that it's going to hit the estate tax, you start paying lawyers, consultants, and accountants to break up your land, and break up your farm» (Source).

Gary Cohn, President Trump's top economic adviser, plans to resign, becoming the latest in a series of high - profile departures from the Trump administration, White House officials said.

Trump said Gary Cohn might return to his administration some day even as he teased the departing economic adviser for being weak on tariffs.

It is «no coincidence» that Texas» seasonally adjusted payroll employment grew by 188,600 jobs over the past 10 months «at just the same time that the federal fiscal stimulus was providing its maximum economic benefit,» says Zandi, a former adviser to GOP presidential candidate John McCain.

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said the federal government might try to block attempts to circumvent the cap, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

«Paying as little tax as possible, regardless of the social consequences, has for many become an acceptable way of doing business,» said Dr David McNair, Christian Aid's senior economic justice adviser.

Andrew Goodwin, senior economic adviser to the Ernst and Young Item Club, said the independent watchdog had reached a more upbeat assessment on public finances than many had expected and that these forecasts need further scrutiny.

«Whereas employers were in «wait and see» mode three months ago, more private sector firms, particularly among private sector services firms, have decided to push the redundancy button in response to worsening economic news,» the CIPD's public policy adviser Gerwyn Davie said.

Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said Friday the deal between Iran, Russia and other members of the Moscow - dominated Eurasian Economic Union is set to be signed next week.

However, Dr John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said: «The Chancellor has introduced what must surely rank as the most astonishing UK budget statement in modern times.

The think tank said the Budget would have a broadly positive effect, but John Philpott, chief economic adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said it did not appear to be a Budget for growth and jobs.

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.»

Donald Trump's former adviser says the president could back Scottish independence, but only «if it makes economic sense».

Johnson's economic adviser Dr Gerard Lyons said it would be a «challenge» to run budget surpluses given this had only been achieved in seven of the last 50 years.

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.

Balls said: «I believe it would be economic madness for George Osborne to go ahead with deflationary spending cuts and the VAT hike that his advisers have been whispering about to the newspapers.

«The mayor will say that the city, like the state and the country, is going through a difficult economic period,» a Bloomberg adviser says, «but that he's already taken measures that have positioned us well for the downturn.

The OBR, led by former chief economic adviser to the Treasury Sir Alan Budd, will probe the previous government's «fixed» forecasts, Mr Osborne said at Whitehall today.

A science adviser would provide guidance on diverse and important topics such as infrastructure development, advanced manufacturing, energy and economic issues, Holt said in a statement issued following Trump taking the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States and delivering his inaugural address on 20 January.

But investing in research and development drives economic growth, say scientific advisers.

«The Initiative is strongly supported by a large number of parliamentarians, and it has the political support even from within the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development,» says Carlos Larrea, a technical adviser to the Yasuni Initiative's negotiating team that recently returned from Germany.

«This impressive group of Republican Cabinet members and presidential economic advisers shows how bipartisan progress on climate change is possible outside the electoral shadow of the fossil fuel industry's political bullying,» Whitehouse said.

Ultimately, says Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former economic adviser to Vice-President Joe Biden, any real solution requires a federal role, both in terms of greater funding but also expertise.