Tag: Steven Mnuchin

• Saturday, July 21st 2018 - 07:05 UTC

  Global trade conflicts and protectionism in G20'agenda meeting in Buenos Aires

  

  Global trade conflicts triggered by the protectionist policies of US President Donald Trump are set to dominate this weekend's meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Trade deal falls warns China, if US insists with imposing more tariffs

  

  China said on Sunday it wouldn’t step up its purchases of United States products if President Donald Trump goes ahead with his threat to tax billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese imports. White House advisers insisted on fundamental changes in ties between the world’s two biggest economic powers.

• Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 06:46 UTC

  “Dictator” Maduro mocks “imperialist” Trump's sanctions

  

  United States has imposed sanctions on Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, over what it called his “illegitimate” election of an assembly to rewrite the constitution. All of Maduro's assets in the United States are frozen and Americans are forbidden from doing any business with him.

• Friday, April 21st 2017 - 10:08 UTC

  Trump administration plans to release major tax reform plan “very soon”

  

  United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday the Trump administration plans to release a “major tax reform” plan “very soon”. While the secretary has more recently backed away from meeting his own August deadline, Mnuchin's comments on Thursday reinforced his own commitment to finalize an overhaul of U.S. tax policy in 2017.

• Tuesday, February 14th 2017 - 10:34 UTC

  Former Goldman Sachs executive and “foreclosure expert”, confirmed as US Treasury Secretary

  

  A bitterly divided Senate on Monday confirmed Steven Mnuchin as United States treasury secretary despite strong objections by Democrats that the former banker ran a “foreclosure machine” when he headed OneWest Bank. Republicans said Mnuchin's long tenure in finance makes him qualified to run the department, which will play a major role in developing economic policy under President Donald Trump.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2016 - 07:51 UTC

  Another Goldman Sachs/Wall Street top official named to Trump's economic team

  

  Gary Cohn who was tapped Monday by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Gary Cohn , is second-in-command at investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, which he once hoped to lead. Cohn, 56, has worked on Wall Street since the 1990s and is one the firm’s best known public faces. He makes frequent television appearances to talk about the health of financial markets and the global economy.