U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew took his plea for stronger global economic growth to a British country house hotel where Louis XVIII, the exiled king of France, stayed for five years. Lew is urging Group of Seven finance ministers...
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Jacob "Jack" Lew, U.S. treasury secretary, arrives to attend the Group of Seven (G-7) finance ministers and central bank governors meeting at Hartwell House in Aylesbury, U.K., on May 10, 2013.
Lew Urges G-7 to Focus on Growth
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JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, left, and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein leave the White House after they and 13 other bank heads met with President Barack Obama on March 27, 2009 in Washington, DC.
Washington Daybook: Banks, Budgets and Guns
President Barack Obama will meet with the heads of the world’s biggest banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Lloyd C. Blankfein and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon, seeking to strengthen ties that have been strained by new U.S. curbs...
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EU Council president Herman Van Rompuy, right, and States Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew arrive to give a press conference following a working session on April 8, 2013 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels.
Lew in Europe: Call Me Jack
Call it diplomatic speed-dating. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, on his first trip to Europe since taking office five weeks ago, is getting to know a lot of the region’s top economic officials very quickly. Lew arrived in Brussels this...
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Timothy Geithner and his wife Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner, attend the U.S. presidential inauguration in Washington on Jan. 21, 2013.
Geithner’s Profit: Asking for $45,000 — Update: Contract
Updated March 22 at 1:30 pm: It takes a Treasury secretary to turn a good investment. Former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is looking for a modest return on his Bethesda, Maryland, home. Geithner and his wife Carole bought the 2,537...
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Senior White House Advisor David Plouffe, left, Sen. John Kerry, center, and White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew board Air Force One in this file photo.
Lew, Kerry Head to China Soon
Newly seated Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Secretary of State John Kerry are bound for China. Lew, next week. Kerry, in coming weeks. President Barack Obama let Chinese President Xi Jinping know that today during a phone call “to congratulate...
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President Barack Obama walks with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, right, as they leave the Gridiron Dinner through a loading area at a hotel in Washington, on March 9, 2013.
Obama’s Gridiron: Jindal’s Night
President Barack Obama, wearing white tie and tails at Washington’s premiere show of political satire, made light of budget cuts consuming the capital. “Because of sequester, they cut my tails,” Obama said at the head table of the Gridiron Club’s...
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Geithner Takes Financial Crisis on Campus Tour as Lew Takes Treasury
As Jack Lew prepares to take over the Treasury Department, Tim Geithner is moving ahead with post-government plans. Geithner, who left the Treasury in January, will hold a series of seminars on the 2008 financial crisis at U.S. universities starting...
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Jack Lew, U.S. treasury secretary nominee and White House chief of staff, sits in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, in Washington, on Jan. 23, 2013.
Washington Daybook: Lew’s Hearing
President Obama heads to Arden, North Carolina, today to further his calls for raising the federal minimum wage and taking other steps to bolster the middle class in his State of the Union address. The president used last night’s speech...
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President Barack Obama meets with Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough, right, and speechwriter Ben Rhodes on Air Force One in this June 4, 2009 file photo on route to Cairo, Egypt.
Obama’s New Chief of Staff Today — That and More Moves
First came Rahm Emanuel. Then Bill Daley. Lastly Jack Lew. The Chicago crew and the seasoned Washington hand who served as President Barack Obama’s chiefs of staff for his first term have yielded to another creature of Capitol Hill, Denis...
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The White House Honey Ale
Obama’s Alcohol-Free Treasury Party
President Barack Obama said this week that he likes “a good party.” He went looking for a going-away party next door today at Treasury, where Secretary Tim Geithner is preparing to step down. At about 4 pm Washington time, Obama...
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