President Donald Trump has nominated Kevin Hassett, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, according to a statement released late Friday. The nomination had been expected. Hassett is most known for coauthoring a book forecasting the Dow reaching 36,000 just months before the dot-com bubble burst. He’s also advised several Republican presidential candidates.
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