What Happened: Summers, a notable economist and former Treasury Secretary under 44th U.S. President Barack Obama, criticized ...

He was confirmed easily. Obama's former chief of staff replaced Tim Geithner as treasury secretary. Geithner stepped down at the end of Obama's first term. As a former budget director for ...

President Donald Trump sounds off on news that Judge James Boasberg has been assigned another Trump-administration-related ...

Do presidents get paid for life? Among the payments of the secretary of the Treasury is the president's taxable pension. As of 2020, presidents will receive a pension equivalent to that of an ...

Sarah Bloom Raskin, a deputy treasury secretary under President Obama, is on several of them. (The other Jewish woman on Biden’s list is Janet Yellen; read about her here.) Biden said Thursday t ...

Boasberg was appointed by former President Barack Obama and is also presiding over a case involving whether or not the Trump ...

In other news Wednesday, Jack Lew, nominee for Treasury Secretary, defended his time as CEO of Citigroup, during which he invested in a Citi fund registered in the Cayman Islands. Also, the Obama ...

If you know just one thing about President Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, there's a good chance it's this: He has a loopy signature. "The stylish scribble starts off with large ...

(CNN)-- President-elect Barack Obama's potential Cabinet is beginning ... Timothy Geithner is "on track" to be offered the treasury secretary post, two sources close to the transition team said ...

Larry Summers, who served as Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration and Director of the National Economic Council during the Obama administration, responded to Bessent’s comments ...

What Happened: Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, lambasted recent tariff policies, warning of potential recession risks and negative long-term consequences. In an interview with ...