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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Economic Policy Team: Zero Women, Zero Minorities, and Five Men Named Steve
igorvolsky ?@igorvolskyDonald Trump's economic policy advisory team revealed:
13 white men
0 women
0 minorities
5 men named Steve
from Think Progress:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced his economic policy advisory team on Friday a collection of 13 men.
While the list does not include any women or racial minorities, it does include five Steves. The people Trump will ostensibly rely on for economic guidance are:
Steve Roth, a fellow real estate investor and the billioanire CEO of Vorando Reality. Roth and Trump reportedly co-own a Manhattan office tower together.
Harold Hamm, an oil and gas billionaire and chairman and CEO of Continental Resources. He served as an energy adviser to Mitt Romneys 2012 campaign and as a major donor to the pro-Romney Restore Our Future super PAC.
Howard Lorber, president and CEO of Vector Group a company that owns both real estate and tobacco companies.
Steven Mnuchin, a hedge fund investor and co-CEO and chairman of Dune Capital Management, he is a longtime friend of Trumps despite the candidates public criticism of hedge fund investors. In May, Trump appointed him national finance chairman for the campaign.
Tom Barrack, another real estate investor and CEO of Colony Capital. He founded Rebuild America Now, a pro-Trump super PAC. During the Republican primary, Trump denounced super PACs and requested the return of all donations to any supporting him, but he hasnt rejected their support during the general campaign.
Stephen M. Calk, CEO and chairman of Federal Savings Bank. He has been a critic of the Obama administrations banking regulations.
John Paulson, another billionaire hedge fund manager and president of Paulson & Co. Paulson, made billions of dollars in profit from shorting the market during the 2007 housing bubble.
Andy Beal, a billionaire investor and founder of Beal Bank. In addition to making a huge profit buying up undervalued assets during the 2008 recession, he has made waves as a mathematician and high-stakes poker player.
Steve Feinberg, the secretive CEO of Ceberus Capital Management, a private investment firm which specializes in distressed investing. Among the firms assets: Remington, the manufacturer of the AR-15.
David Malpass, founder and president of Encima Global, a economic consulting and research firm. He held positions in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and unsuccessfully ran for the New York Republican U.S. Senate nomination in 2010.
Peter Navarro, a business school professor and anti-China author. He has praised Trumps peace through economic and military strength strategy as right out of the Reagan playbook.
Stephen Moore, the Heritage Foundation scholar, former Wall Street Journal columnist and founder of the anti-tax Club for Growth. His economic predictions have been wildly inaccurate.
Dan DiMicco, the former president and CEO of steel giant Nucor Corporation. DiMicco authored a 2015 book urging a return to American manufacturing
read: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/08/05/3805373/trump-all-white-all-male-economic-advisers/
Bill Madden ?@activist360 2h2 hours ago
IDIOCY: What's outrageous about Trump's inane economic policy team is not only that it's 13 white guys, it's that there are ZERO economists.
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Trump Economic Policy Team: Zero Women, Zero Minorities, and Five Men Named Steve (Original Post)
bigtree
Aug 2016
OP
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)1. What a . . .
So many words come to mind. None of them nice or positive.
The repubs I know are voting for Johnson or Clinton. More for Johnson than Clinton, but I don't know one person who will admit to supporting Trump.
True Dough
(17,306 posts)2. "The blacks love me. The Latinos love me."
"I just don't love them back."
Cartoonist
(7,317 posts)3. Five guys
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)5. What's wrong with Steve?
Lots of cool people are named Steve...
Steve Harvey
Steven Tyler
Steve Young
Steven Speilberg
Stephen King
Stephen Hawking