Trump Adds Eight Women to His Economic Team

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday expanded his economic policy advisory council, adding eight women to the 14 men named over the past week, including a Washington economist advocating the gold standard, the head of a Texas “free market research institute,” the chairwoman of a California private-equity fund, and two Midwestern manufacturing executives.

The campaign also added to the team dominated by big-name male financiers Anthony Scaramucci, another hedge-fund director acting as a top campaign fundraiser.

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The new members include Judy Shelton, who holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Utah and is co-director of the “Sound Money Project” at a Washington think tank called the Atlas Network. Ms. Shelton has written regularly in favor of the gold standard and stable exchange rates. A frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal editorial page, she wrote a piece published Wednesday defending his vow to brand China a “currency manipulator” and ramp up trade pressure on Beijing.

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Carla Sands, chairman of private equity firm Vintage Capital Group LLC, based in Los Angeles, who was appointed in 2008 to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s administration.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/08/11/trumpadvise/