ECONOMY/NOMINATIONS/TREASURY/TRUMP PEOPLE/DAVID MALPASS: “The Trump administration’s nominee to be Washington’s top financial diplomat, ex-Bear Stearns chief economist David Malpass, will advocate an America-first revision of the world’s economic architecture when senators review his nomination Wednesday [6-7-17].
Mr. Malpass, a former senior official in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, has long been critical of global trade agreements and multilateral financial institutions that represent the backbone of world economic diplomacy.
As the Treasury’s undersecretary for international affairs, Mr. Malpass would act as the administration’s key advocate for dealing with sensitive economic diplomacy on issues such as exchange rates and cross-border rifts over financial regulation, including at the Group of 7 and Group of 20.”
-Ian Talley, “Donald Trump’s Nominee for Financial Post Backs ‘America First’ Policies,” The Wall Street Journal online, June 7, 2017 08:00am