Sentences with phrase «top economic adviser»

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.

President Xi Jinping sent top economic adviser Liu He to visit Washington for five days to Saturday, ahead of China's annual National People's Congress meeting opening this coming Monday.

«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.

Stock futures were down across the board overnight after President Trump's top economic adviser resigned over a trade policy dispute.

Larry Kudlow, Mr. Trump's new top economic adviser, has sought to portray the tariffs as an opening bid in a negotiating process with China, and he told reporters on Friday that «there are all kinds of back - channel discussions going on.»

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will lead a delegation of top economic advisers to Beijing late in the week to begin negotiations between two nations that appear to be on the brink of a trade war.

China runs a $ 375 billion trade surplus with the United States and when President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser visited Washington recently, the administration pressed him to come up with a way of reducing that number.

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.

As CNBC's Eamon Javers notes, these two men have opposite views on trade — and the fact that they could both be considered as Trump's top economic adviser reflects just how little interest the president has in settling the internal wars that have left his administration with so much infighting and leaking.

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.

But fostering more uncertainty, the president's top economic advisers offered mixed messages Sunday as to the best approach with China, which has threatened to retaliate if Washington follows through with its proposed tariffs, even as Trump emphasized his bond with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The president's top economic adviser lost a battle to prevent the imposition of steep tariffs pushed by protectionist advisers.

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.

FURIOUS Tory MPs told Germany to stop meddling in UK affairs after Angela Merkel's top economic advisers declared Brexit must be stopped - because it will harm our economy.

The surprise appointment of the highly - rated James Chapman comes as the Chancellor's top economic adviser Rupert Harrison and his press secretary Ramesh Chhabra are both leaving the fold.

He was not a natural fit to be Trump's top economic adviser because of his ties to Wall Street and New York Democrats, but Trump saw him as incredibly successful and a financial market «genius» who brought instant credibility to his economic team.

Top economic adviser Gary Cohn announced his resignation on Tuesday, after he was unable to convince Trump that imposing tariffs would spark an unproductive trade war.

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

China runs a $ 375 billion trade surplus with the United States and when President Xi Xinping's top economic adviser visited...

One of the preident's top economic advisers said elimination of the state - and - local tax deduction would put middle - class taxpayers in New York in a better financial position if the «entirety» of the Trump tax plan is enacted.

President Barack Obama's former top economic adviser, Jason Furman, noted the slip - up, calling it a «minor transgression.»

Liu He, President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser, is heading the Chinese side in the talks.

The mission including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is due to hold talks later Thursday and Friday with Chinese officials led by Liu He, President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser.

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.»

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.

Gene Sperling, a top economic adviser to Democratic former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, said Trump erred in recent months by focusing...

One of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers and an architect of the GOP tax bill is thinking about leaving the White House soon, Politico reported Tuesday.

Austan Goolsbee, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and formerly a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama who served on the Council of Economic Advisers, told Business Insider in an email «such a heavy corporate background likely means a high importance shifts to Congress in determining policy details,» particularly regarding Mnuchin.

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.

The conservative economist Larry Kudlow will replace Gary Cohn as National Economic Council director and become the top economic adviser to President Donald Trump.

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.

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

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.

One of those options was the imposition of new tariffs — something that Gary Cohn, Trump's top economic adviser, desperately tried to argue against.

Larry Kudlow, Trump's top economic adviser, sought to calm markets Friday afternoon at the White House, to little apparent avail.

Despite Trump's gratitude, in an interview on US radio his top economic adviser Larry Kudlow was less magnanimous in his summing up of Xi's speech, though he remained upbeat.

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.

Mr. Cohn was recently appointed to be President - elect Trump's top economic adviser and the director of the National Economic Council.

Rumors are swirling that his national security adviser might soon be pushed out too, and that his top economic adviser could quit.

And Trump's top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, just resigned over Trump's decision to move forward with tariffs.

Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, will lead a delegation of President Trump's top economic advisers to Beijing next week in hopes of brokering an agreement to avert a trade war.

For months, congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump's top economic adviser have been trying to convince the president that imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is a bad idea.

Trump's tweet came hours after his top economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters the US is «in the pre-preliminary stages of any discussions» with TPP countries about rejoining the pact, and that the prospect of reentry was more a «thought» than a «policy» at this point.

President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, suggested the U.S. tariffs won't be implemented if China lowers barriers to trade.

When Summers returned to Washington, this time to the White House, as President Obama's top economic adviser, he prominently mentioned Zimmerman, by then a billionaire hedge fund proprietor, as among his kitchen cabinet of advisers.

One of the only other people whom Mr. Trump views as a peer is his top economic adviser, Gary Cohn.

Recently, Trump named Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn as his top economic adviser.