Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn is said to be President-elect Donald Trump’s top choice to lead the National Economic Council, the White House panel that coordinates and develops economic policy. Here are comments Cohn, 56, has made in recent years about economics, regulation and leadership:
“This idea that central banks around the world have to give very clear very, very definitive forward guidance has gotten the markets very confused. In some respects, if central banks would go back to being central banks, and really worry about what’s going on in the economy and do what they think they need to do, instead of spending all their time talking about what they’re going to do, we’d probably all be in a lot better position. When central banks spend all their time talking about what they’re going to do, they either have to do it, or they disappoint.” -- March 2016
