Tag: Joseph Lawler

Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn reportedly picked as President-elect Trump's top economic adviser. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Reports: Trump to pick Goldman Sachs president for economic adviser

Joseph Lawler · December 9, 2016 4:18 pm

More respondents mentioned the positive impact of new economic policies than recorded ever before. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Consumer confidence surges on promise of Trump policies

Joseph Lawler · December 9, 2016 4:04 pm

Johnson called the plan the "start of a fact-based conversation" on how to fix Social Security's finances. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Key GOP lawmaker introduces Social Security reform plan

Joseph Lawler · December 9, 2016 12:10 am

The agency will meet Dec. 15 to consider the rule, which would require banks to issue certain amounts of long-term debt that could be converted to equity in the case of a bank failure, effectively forcing creditors to "bail in" the bank rather than taxpayers bailing it out. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Fed to meet on finalizing major too-big-to-fail rule before Obama leaves

Joseph Lawler · December 8, 2016 8:11 pm

Portland's city council passed a measure that would tax companies with high CEO pay, making it the first jurisdiction in the U.S. to attempt to directly target inequality within companies. (iStock Photo)

Portland to tax companies with high CEO pay

Joseph Lawler · December 8, 2016 6:41 pm

Forecasters had expected new jobless claims to fall to 255,000. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Jobless claims fall back to 258,000 to start December

Joseph Lawler · December 8, 2016 1:32 pm

Ethics experts say President-elect Trump would have to divest himself of his business and put his wealth into a blind trust. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump would have trouble cutting conflicts of interest even if he wanted to

Joseph Lawler · December 8, 2016 5:01 am

President-elect Trump abruptly claimed Tuesday, in an appearance at Trump Tower and on Twitter, that Softbank, a Japanese telecommunications group, had promised to invest $50 billion in U.S. businesses and to create 50,000 new jobs because of his victory. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s latest jobs claim: Here’s what we know

Joseph Lawler · December 7, 2016 11:03 pm

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will serve a two-year term as chairman of the Business Roundtable starting in January, the business lobbying group announced Wednesday. (Rick Osentoski/Invision for JPMorgan Chase Co./AP Images)

JPMorgan’s Dimon to lead major business lobby

Joseph Lawler · December 7, 2016 6:03 pm

At just under 5.1 million, hiring is lower than it was a year ago and has been trending lower. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Hiring falls for third straight month

Joseph Lawler · December 7, 2016 3:48 pm

Douglas Oberhelman, the CEO of Caterpillar, said that, for the most part, business will get behind Trump's approach to keeping business in the country "if we have the concurrent policy that we've been harping about for a number of years to follow up on that. I think it could be a nice coming of a perfect storm, actually, a year from now." (AP Photo/Scott Eisen, File)

Business leaders downplay worries about Trump threats to companies

Joseph Lawler · December 6, 2016 4:55 pm

Housing groups welcome Carson pick

Housing groups welcome Carson pick

Joseph Lawler · December 5, 2016 8:00 pm