Top Goldman Sachs veteran gets Trump's attention on jobs, taxes and more
But Cohn's prominent role in economic policy has generated outrage in some quarters
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A FEW weeks after the election, Gary Cohn, the president of Goldman Sachs, was summoned to Trump Tower for a discussion about the economy. It would be the first of many such meetings with then-president-elect Donald Trump.
During that sit-down, on Nov 29, Mr Cohn briefed Mr Trump on what he regarded as the chief hurdle to expanding the economy, according to people who were briefed on the discussion: a stronger dollar, which would undermine efforts to create jobs.
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