Hints and tips:
...Robert O’Brien, the former national security adviser who has continued to praise Trump, may well be in the mix for a top job....
...Other officials in quarantine include Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this week said the US was “not out of the woods”....
...But Kevin Hassett, a top White House economic official, told CBS television that it was “scary to go to work” and he knew it was “a little bit risky”....
...The Trump administration is dominated by economic officials, such as Mr Kudlow and senior adviser Kevin Hassett, who believe in supply-side solutions centred on cutting taxes, and are deeply sceptical of...
...“It’s not going to be just Apple,” Mr Hassett said in a CNN interview on Thursday....
...James Hassett, currency trader at Barclays, believes investors are expecting a move to as high as $1.35-40 or down to $1.15-20, depending on whether the final outcome is seen as positive or negative....
...“We think this is going to lead to more trade, not less trade,” said Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative....
...The US president and his supporters believe he now has the wind at his back after the conclusion of Robert Mueller’s investigation....
...Kevin Hassett, the chairman of Mr Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, says there have been “pluses and minuses” from the trade policies announced so far....
...With his dry wit and incisive observations he became a central presence at AEI lunches — collegial and occasionally combative occasions where everything was questioned, says Kevin Hassett, the AEI’s director...
...Overexcitement about equities in late 1999 was captured perfectly by James Glassman and Kevin Hassett in the title of their book, Dow 36,000....
...Options include establishment figures such as Robert Zoellick, the former World Bank president who is running the Republican candidate’s national security transition team; Robert Kimmitt, a deputy Treasury...
...Mr Hassett said this would throw a wrench into hopes for “bipartisan policy” over the next two years....
...Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary, on Wednesday questioned whether the political system in Washington was equipped to put a package in place in time....
...Mr Wolfowitz used a different lawyer, Robert Barnett, a partner at Williams & Connolly, in the original negotiations....
...Staff members are particularly critical of the way Mr Wolfowitz handled the final days before his resignation and the combative public tack taken by his lawyer Robert Bennett, who once represented President...
...“They have not been willing to let other people do that, so there has been less demand for a Robert Rubin-type person....
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