Trump Expands Search for Treasury Secretary
From the Financial Times, London
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Donald Trump has expanded his search for a Treasury secretary to serve in his second-term cabinet, throwing the contest for his top economic official into confusion as he struggles to settle on a choice.
The Republican president-elect had been weighing whether to offer the job to Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager, or Howard Lutnick, co-chair of his transition team and chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial firm. But at the weekend, Trump moved to widen the net of possible alternatives.
People close to the process said Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve governor, Marc Rowan, chief executive of Apollo Global Management, and Bill Hagerty, the Tennessee senator, are also now in the running, along with Robert Lighthizer, the former U.S. trade representative under Trump. ...
https://www.ft.com/content/3c98661c-8b8b-4c84-b32a-611c1c59dd1b
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Warsh knows all about gold market rigging by the U.S. government, gold swaps -- and GATA.
Fed Admits Hiding Gold Swap Arrangements:
https://www.gata.org/node/7819
Former Fed Governor Warsh admits that the central bank manipulates markets:
https://www.gata.org/node/16702
Central bank policy is obscuring market values, Warsh tells Stanford audience:
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