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Lazard implements new leadership

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2023
... chair of investment banking. Prior to Lazard, Orszag served as the director of the office of management and budget in the Obama Administration. "Peter is the optimal choice as the next chief executive of Lazard," Lazard lead independent director Richard ...

Key finance figures in Biden Cabinet

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... Yellen. Adeyemo was the first chief of staff for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and serves as president of the Obama Foundation. He was the senior international economic adviser during the Obama administration. If confirmed, he would be the ...

Chief economist update: US-China tensions escalate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... each other for a handshake. Or... could it be that Trump is applying the exact same thing he accused former US President Obama of when he tweeted back on 16 November 2011: "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability ...

Billionaires targeted in Twitter bitcoin scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... hacked to promote a bitcoin scam. The official Twitter accounts of many notable people, including former President Barrack Obama and Presidential candidate Joe Biden, were hacked to promote a bitcoin scam to their millions of followers. The tweets were ...

Chief economist update: It's the US consumer, stupid me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... survey". Good or bad, a University of Michigan survey of small business owners found that the "cautious optimism" under Obama turned into full-blown optimism under Trump.

Volcker Rule tweak gets green light

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2019
... after former Fed chair Paul Volcker who proposed the restrictions on speculative trading by big banks as a part of Barrack Obama's economic advisory panel. Obama endorsed it in 2010 and the five agencies approved final regulations in 2013.

Xinja funds platform for growth

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... said. In October 2018, Xinja announced Brett King, former White House and US Federal Reserve adviser under President Barack Obama, had joined the Xinja board as a permanent adviser.

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... something great, he [Powell] raises interest rates... I'm just saying this, I'm very unhappy with the Fed because Obama had zero interest rates." Well, duh! The US economy was relatively weaker during Obama's term compared to the one growing ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... has broken many promises to forgo nuclear arms". As for Trump, he just recently withdrew the Iran nuclear deal made with Obama and more telling is his change of mind to not endorse the Communique agreed upon over the weekend's G7 Summit in Quebec ...

Macron won't stop populist tide: William Blair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... first started integrating it into our investment decisions in February of 2010, when we saw the Tea Party emerge during the Obama administration. And despite what happened in France recently, it isn't going away: geopolitical and macro risks arising ...
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