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...Holtz-Eakin said: “We didn’t blow up the global financial system. That hardly constitutes a great accomplishment.”...
...But imposing a mandate on firms that didn’t see a need seems antithetical to the goal of bolstering semiconductor competitiveness....
...I don’t think its reasonable to be completely cynical about those arguments.”...
...“He can’t make this happen unless the states say they want it to happen,” said Mr Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum....
...Mr Holtz-Eakin suggested that businesses have changed their standards for hiring. For some lower-risk professions, he said, “You just don’t run a drug test any more.”...
...This year it is neither,” said Doug Holtz-Eakin, a former top White House budget official who now runs the American Action Forum think-tank....
...“If we didn’t have the tariffs, I wouldn’t be forecasting a decline. The industry is a bellwether for the economy, so this could be bad news, he added....
...“For the Republicans to look budget conscious it isn’t going to take much.”...
...Doug Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, said the growth assumptions in the Treasury document sounded like a restatement of the president’s budget....
...“There is a lot riding on it — and it is far from automatic,” Mr Holtz-Eakin said. “It is a regular event that budget resolutions don’t get passed in the House and Senate.”...
...As BAML’s Ms Holtz puts it: “At some stage there’s [only] so much banks can offer. If you don’t use it then progress is going to be difficult. So it’s our responsibility as well to evolve”....
...Doug Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum said the president now needed to offer clear signals as to his priorities and then not get distracted from them....
...“You can’t get a healthy economy as long as you have Dodd-Frank on the books.”...
...But the dollars don’t line up. From a business perspective they can’t organise a way to handle this without significant cost,” said the aide. Walmart declined to comment....
...It wasn’t automatic that we would come back from that....
...“The whole world is rattled by this guy: they don’t know what to expect from him,” he said. “Instability in the world leads to bad consequences.”...
...That doesn’t happen in third world countries,” she offered to cheers....
...“Trump approaches it like, ‘I don’t care how you do it. I just want it fixed’.”...
...I don’t think this is behind us.”...
...Doug Holtz-Eakin, chief economic policy adviser to John McCain during the 2008 campaign, said it was clear the two men remained far from fully unified....
...“It’s not like Trump has agreed to drop everything and do what Paul says, or that Paul agrees 100 per cent with Trump,” Doug Holtz-Eakin, a John McCain adviser in 2008, told me....
...(Slate) Soundbites “I’m not a constitutional scholar, so I can’t necessarily say, but are you eligible to run if you are a man-baby or a baby-man? I don’t know. But he is a man-baby....
...Holtz-Eakin, chief economic policy adviser to John McCain during the 2008 campaign....
...“If the rand gets weaker our raw materials get more expensive so we don’t necessarily see the benefit,” said Thomas Holtz, chief executive at Multotec, a private company with German and South African shareholders...
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