Ari Brouillette: The treasury secretary and the Swedish girl

Ari Brouillette: The treasury secretary and the Swedish girl

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was recently asked about climate activist Greta Thunberg’s call for divestiture from fossil fuel stocks.

His answer was unsurprisingly blunt, “After she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and explain that to us.”

What, after all, could a teenage girl be expected to know about the complex world of finance and energy? Mnuchin is of course a Yale graduate, former Goldman Sachs executive, and hedge fund CEO, tasked with guiding the world’s largest economy safely through these increasingly turbulent economic times. Surely economics, the so called dismal science, could identify which of these […]

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