Council of Economic Advisers

“American dominance was based on being at the center of an incredibly close set of alliances, not based on the unilateral power of the United States,” said Jason Furman, professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and former chair of then-President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.

"These tariffs are customised to each country, calculated by the Council of Economic Advisers… The model they use is based on the concept the trade deficit that we have is the sum of all the unfair trade practices, the sum of all cheating."

In January 2012, the late economist Alan Krueger, who at the time was Barack Obama’s chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, laid out in a speech precisely why inequality in the U.S. is bad for everyone in the U.S., regardless of income.

But the White House Council of Economic Advisers said last August it found “little evidence that AI will negatively impact overall employment.’

When Trump slashed the corporate tax rate, his Council of Economic Advisers promised American workers would see at least $4,000 added to their bottom line — the old “trickle-down economics” sales pitch again.