“Then, in one week, they got worried about it.” He believes, during this critical moment, Bush’s words were a signal to Hank Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury at the time, along with ...

Executive actions by presidents have to be grounded in defensible legal authority and process. Just because Donald Trump says he can do something doesn’t mean he can.

Few were more intimately involved with manging the financial crisis than Hank Paulson, President George W. Bush's treasury secretary. In a new op-ed in the New York Times, Paulson says he's seeing ...

Harder to explain is the similar response to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s Strategic Economic Dialogue (in which I participated) in the George W. Bush Administration, designed to tackle both ...