{"id":15773,"date":"2017-10-09T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15773"},"modified":"2017-10-08T19:13:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T23:13:52","slug":"why-steve-mnuchin-and-gary-cohnstruggle-to-sell-the-republican-tax-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/why-steve-mnuchin-and-gary-cohnstruggle-to-sell-the-republican-tax-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Steve Mnuchin And Gary Cohn\u2026Struggle To Sell The Republican Tax Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100817_2234_WhySteveMnu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Gross suggested an intriguing explanation for why President Trump and the Republican Administration have struggled to sell their tax plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Chairman Gary Cohn played a key part in developing the tax plan and are now explaining it to the American people.<\/li>\n<li>They\u2026haven&#8217;t done the best job selling it.<\/li>\n<li>Both previously worked at Goldman Sachs and the problem might just be that they weren&#8217;t senior enough.<\/li>\n<li>CEOs are the public face of a company, and need to be charismatic in the face of hostile questions from investors, regulators, journalists, and other stake holders.<\/li>\n<li>Previous Goldman Sachs CEOs \u2013 like Robert Rubin who served under Clinton, and Hank Paulson who served under Bush Jr., did a lot better, probably because they had more experience dealing with a skeptical public.<\/li>\n<li>Mnuchin and Cohn were more behind the scenes dealmakers at Goldman and so didn&#8217;t necessarily develop the charisma their roles could use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2017\/09\/why-steve-mnuchin-and-gary-cohn-are-so-bad-at-selling-trumps-tax-plan.html\">Slate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Gross suggested an intriguing explanation for why President Trump and the Republican Administration have struggled to sell their tax plan: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Chairman Gary Cohn played a key part in developing the tax plan and are now explaining it to the American people. They\u2026haven&#8217;t done the best job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100817_2234_WhySteveMnu1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15781,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions\/15781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}