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...have to feel a little sorry for U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. The former Goldman Sachs CEO's China experience and contacts - he had visited no less than 72 times - was touted as a major asset when he was appointed to the job five months ago. Now, he's in Beijing at the head of a high-powered U.S. economic delegation that includes six cabinet ministers, the U.S. Trade Representative and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - and he's under pressure to deliver. The U.S. urgently needs Beijing to allow its currency to appreciate in value against the dollar...
...would make U.S. exports more competitive and help reduce America's yawning trade deficit - but it would also stir up inflation, as well as crimp the profits of European firms and hurt economic growth there. It also risks bringing heightened volatility to world financial markets. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, for one, thinks that's a bad idea. "A strong dollar is clearly in our nation's best interest," he said last week...
...program that continues to slide toward insolvency. Meet the new key players in the Social Security game, including a surprising presidential appointee who could outmaneuver the ascendant Democrats. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] THE RAINMAKER WHY HE MATTERS HOW HE'LL PLAY IT Henry Paulson Jr. The Treasury Secretary and Bush's Social Security front man raised eyebrows last week by saying he would set "no preconditions" on the Administration's push to reform. Paulson's statement hinted that the President is backing off his demand that workers be allowed to invest some...
...lose: challenge Congress to go after big goals, including debating an overhaul of Social Security and the other two big entitlement programs, Medicare and Medicaid. Bush has spoken increasingly frankly about his plans to run up the hill on Social Security again, and sources say Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson will use his Wall Street cachet to promote discussion of an issue that had Republicans dashing for the exits last year...
With his first official visit to China scheduled for this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has been at pains to ease frictions between the world's two largest trading partners. Despite its ballooning trade deficit with China and the loss of American manufacturing jobs, the U.S. remains a champion of open markets, Paulson said in a speech last Wednesday, noting: "Protectionist policies do not work and the collateral damage from these policies is high. We will not heed the siren songs of protectionism and isolationism...