Steven Mnuchin could be Donald Trump’s official ‘financial policy translator’
New York — Wall Street power brokers may have rolled their eyes in private when former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin agreed to be Donald Trump’s national finance chairman, but now they are lining up to meet him. Financial lobbyists and their bosses are hoping that Mnuchin and others Trump has enlisted as advisers will help convey their views and act as interpreters of the president-elect’s at times confusing messages so far. "This is different from a lot of elections in the past where you could say, ‘If so-and-so wins, this will be good for that industry and bad for that one’," said Scott Bok, CEO of investment bank Greenhill & Company. "It’s not like Trump laid out a clear set of policies where you can say, ‘This is good for these types of companies and bad for those’." Bankers and their lobbyists are hoping their path to influence will become clearer in the coming weeks with Trump’s cabinet appointments. "It is a matter now of getting to the people who are coming in and conv...
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