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Category Archives: Goldman Sachs
Trump Staff Still Short on Relevant Experience
There isn't much that President Trump hasn't tried in staffing top jobs at the White House. He has tried political operatives.
Steve Bannon gone, Trump still United States president
Hell hath no fury like a Bannon scorned. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian , and Cary Harrison, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss.
With Tax Reform On The Table, Steve Bannon Is Pushing To Punish The Wealthy
Well, it's certainly not going to affect me, but it's still not a very conservative stance to punish success. At some point, Republicans are going to get tired of unelected people setting policy in this White House, won't they? strategist Steve Bannon is behind the drive to saddle the "very wealthy" with a 44 percent to marginal tax rate.
Sean Spicer Spins Out
Let's take a moment to feel sorry for erstwhile White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Once a pillar of Washington's Republican establishment, a good ol' boy well liked by GOP insiders and the cynical Washington press corps, Spicer seemed perfect for the job he held for six years as RNC communications director.
Here’s everything we know about Trump’s 26-year-old executive assistant
Madeleine Westerhout became a familiar face in late 2016, when she was frequently photographed guiding then president-elect Donald Trump's guests - such as Rick Perry, Mitch McConnell, and Goldman Sach's Gary Cohn - through the lobby of Trump Tower. While some media outlets dubbed her the " elevator girl ," Westerhout was quickly establishing her role within the Trump transition team.
Trump’s OCC Chief Will Stay Away From Big Banks to Avoid Conflicts
The new acting chief of one of Washington's major banking regulators has agreed to stay away from issues involving dozens of former legal clients, including 14 banks that the agency oversees, according to his ethics agreement. Keith Noreika, who represented lenders as a private lawyer, plans to recuse himself from matters related to JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc., firms the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regulates. Democratic lawmakers had already questioned whether Noreika's close ties to the industry would prevent him from being an impartial watchdog.
New Jersey holds governor primaries under shadow of unpopular Christie
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is barred by state law from running for a third consecutive four-year term this year, but the unpopular former Republican presidential candidate remains a central figure in the campaign to replace him. Voters head to the polls on Tuesday to choose Republican and Democratic nominees to succeed Christie, whose approval ratings have hit historic lows.
Goldman Sachs CEO tweets for the first time, slams Trump’s Paris decision
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein sent his first-ever tweet on Thursday -- and he used it to criticize President Trump's decision to back out of the Paris climate pact. "Today's decision is a setback for the environment and for the U.S.'s leadership position in the world.
Donald Trump: Ruling Class President
One of the many irritating things about the dominant United States corporate media is the way it repeatedly discovers anew things that are not remotely novel. Take its recent discovery that Donald Trump isn't really the swamp-draining populist working class champion he pretended to be on the campaign trail.
15 Times Trump Was Guilty of Hillary’s Supposed Sins
To simply label the Trump administration as a herd of hypocrites undersells a tremendous capacity to lie without shame. Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump and his surrogates freely leveled a variety of accusations at Hillary Clinton and her team, but often the three fingers pointing back at themselves told the real story.
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In a White House marked by infighting, top economic aide Gary Cohn, a Democrat and former Goldman Sachs banker, is muscling aside some of President Donald Trump's hard-right advisers to push more moderate, business-friendly economic policies. Cohn, 56, did not work on Republican Trump's campaign and only got to know him after the November election, but he has emerged as one of the administration's most powerful players in an ascent that rankles conservatives.
Meet Trump’s newest economic adviser
President Trump has finally nominated a chief economist. It's another sign the White House is getting serious about tax reform.
Inside the Emerging Trumpian Alt-Right Snuff Novel
All signs suggest we're now in the "President Trump has full confidence in Michael Flynn" phase of Steve Bannon's tenure in the Trump White House. I don't know whether this is some moron genius dialectic on Bannon's part or just Karma.
The For-Profit Presidency, Month One
One month into the Trump administration, and it's clear that there has been a wholesale corporate takeover of the government A day-by-day review of the administration's first month shows that virtually every day there has been a new, extraordinary grant of power to corporate interests and/or another development in Donald Trump's get-rich-quick-scheme known as the American presidency. Poorly attended though it might have been, the inauguration itself was a paean not just to the new president but to his corporate backers.
Senate confirms Goldman Sachs executive Mnuchin as Trumpa s treasury secretary
The Senate confirmed Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary in a vote Monday evening, adding the former Goldman Sachs executive to President Donald Trump's Cabinet. The 53-47 vote, which fell largely along party lines, makes Mnuchin the 10th of Trump's Cabinet nominees to be confirmed in three weeks.
Trump Team Leery of Having Too Many – Goldman Guys’ in Top Posts
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Jim Donovan is under consideration for the No. 2 job at the Treasury Department, said a person familiar with the deliberations, but he's got one big thing working against him.
Business | Sen. Warren, Baldwin Seek Information on Goldman…
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin are seeking information on Goldman Sachs' role in and influence over the economic policies of the Trump administration. "The executive orders released by President Trump on Friday last week raise our concerns about the degree to which Mr. Cohn's advice to President Trump is good for Wall Street, but bad for Americans.
Elizabeth Warren probes Goldman Sachs’ ties to Trump
Washington, Feb 11 - After US President Trump signed an order to begin the process of dismantling Dodd-Frank act, Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday asked investment banking company Goldman Sachs to explain how much influence it has over Trump's economic policies. The market value of investment banking company Goldman Sachs soared by $4 billion as Trump signed the order las week on Friday and former Goldman president Gary Cohn walked away from Goldman Sachs with $285 million to become Trump's top economic adviser.
‘This guy is a fraud’, Sanders on Trump
Washington, Feb 6 - Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called US President Donald Trump a fraud and accused him of falling short of commitments to middle-class voters, pointing to his Cabinet and senior advisers' ties to Wall Street, the media reported. This guy is a fraud, Sanders, also a former presidential hopeful, told CNN on Sunday.