Cohn emerges from Trump shadows touting Dodd-Frank overhaul
New York
US president Donald Trump's economic policies have a new public face, and it belongs to a balding Wall Street banker barely a month out of the No 2 job at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Gary Cohn, who left Goldman's glass-and-steel lower Manhattan headquarters for a West Wing office with enormous potential clout, is taking on an expanded role as he fills a gap while the new administration waits to seat its Treasury secretary.
As director of the National Economic Council, one of the most influential White House posts, he played front man for Mr Trump's bid to overhaul financial regulations. Mr Cohn made a series of television appearances last Friday to promote the president's initial executive actions to undo Obama-era policies, including the Dodd-Frank law and a rule…
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