Wikileaks released a new batch of emails on Thursday that were sent by then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to Leon Podesta when he was preparing for his transition to the presidency. One email, from senior Citigroup executive Michael Froman, included lists of candidates for presidential appointment, evidently prepared at Obama’s request, focusing on women and minorities.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection official working within the Office of International Trade in the United States has issued a stunning rebuke to U.S. President Barack Obama and his trade official Michael Froman by insisting that the United Kingdom
Former Florida Governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush connected with Breitbart News for an interview on taxes, “pragmatic” conservatism, and trade. We print the full questions and answer here:
U.S. trade representative Michael Froman, who intervened in Britain’s Brexit debate was slammed by one of his own party’s darlings, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, for his aversion to “transparency”. Rolling Stone magazine reported in 2014: The U.S. trade representative, Ambassador
From CityAM: I held the UK/Europe brief at one of the major Washington, DC think tanks for eight arduous years. Every manner of European statesman trooped through my door, invariably trying to use me to leverage the US to do
UKIP leader Nigel Farage slammed one of U.S. President Barack Obama’s most senior trade officials on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme on Sunday morning. Speaking about the European Union and Britain’s upcoming membership referendum, Mr. Marr asked Mr. Farage about
For all its demagoguery about Wall Street, the Obama administration hasn’t been shy about tapping Wall Street talent to fill the ranks of his administration. Now, some Democrats are claiming to have had enough over “Obama’s nomination of Antonio Weiss to
The EU is attempting to ban American companies from using the names of European cheeses to describe their own products. As part of ongoing trade negotiations between the European Union and United States, the EU has requested that only cheeses
Today, President Barack Obama plans to nominate former Citigroup chief and Obama campaign fundraiser Michael Froman as the next U.S. Trade Representative. Froman, who bundled between $200,000 and $500,000 for Obama’s campaigns, was the former head of CitiAlternatives. In his
