Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, listens as Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwatrzman speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump and banking industry executives on the coronavirus, at the White House, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
March 12, 2020
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March 12, 2020 11:28 a.m.
Trump economic team grasps for credibility with outbreak
WASHINGTON (AP) — During the financial crisis a decade ago, President Barack Obama could look around the room and turn to an economist who served as Harvard's president, a former president of the New York Federal Reserve and a renowned academic considered one of the world's authorities on the Great Depression.