Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has picked up a new job job as an investment banker after leaving posts at the Evening Standard and BlackRock.
Mr Osborne, 49, served in David Cameron s Cabinet between 2010 and 2016, before Theresa May became prime minister.
He then served as a backbench MP until the 2017 General Election, while taking up new roles in media and banking.
Last year he was promoted from editor to editor-in-chief at the London Evening Standard.
He has now left the role, as well as a £650,000-a-year, one-day-a-week position he held at US fund manager BlackRock.
George Osborne served in David Cameron s Cabient from 2010 to 2016, since then he has taken on a number of high-profile jobs, some of which boast a six-figure salary. He is expected to leave the Evening Standard and BlackRock in March to join banking firm Robey Warshaw
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Former Google CEO and others call for U.S.-China tech bifurcation
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
A new set of proposals by a group of influential D.C. insiders and tech industry practitioners calling for a degree of bifurcation in the U.S. and Chinese tech sectors is circulating in the Biden administration. Axios has obtained a copy.
Why it matters: The idea of decoupling certain sectors of the U.S. and Chinese economies felt radical three years ago, when Trump s trade war brought the term into common parlance. But now the strategy has growing bipartisan and even industry support.
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Exclusive: Trump advisor calls on Congress to approve Biden’s rescue plan
Former Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett broadly supports President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue package as a way to keep the coronavirus-ravaged economy afloat.
“They’ve thrown a lot of stimulus at it,” Hassett told CNN Business on Thursday, “but I think we need to be risk averse.”
The former Trump administration official fears that without more aid from Washington, the worsening pandemic will cause the US economy to suffer a repeat of the first quarter of last year, when GDP shrank by 5%
“There are so many businesses treading water, barely hanging on. Now they are getting hit by another shock,” said Hassett, who served as Trump’s top economic adviser from 2017 to 2019 before returning in a voluntary role in March of last year. “You could end up in a negative spiral for the economy.”