A hedge fund consultant’s summary of private presentations by White House economic advisers fanned investor worries.

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A hedge fund consultant’s summary of private presentations by White House economic advisers fanned investor worries.
A hedge fund consultant’s summary of private presentations by White House economic advisers fanned investor worries.
"On the afternoon of Feb. 24, President Trump declared on Twitter that the coronavirus was “very much under control” in the United States, one of numerous rosy statements that he and his advisers made at the time about the worsening epidemic. He even added an observation for investors: “Stock market starting to look very good to me!” But hours earlier, senior members of the president’s economic team, privately addressing board members of the conservative Hoover Institution, were less confident. […]
"The next day, board members — many of them Republican donors — got another taste of government uncertainty from Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council. Hours after he had boasted on CNBC that the virus was contained in the United States and “it’s pretty close to airtight,” Mr. Kudlow delivered a more ambiguous private message. He asserted that the virus was “contained in the U.S., to date, but now we just don’t know,” according to a document describing the sessions obtained by The New York Times.
"The document, written by a hedge fund consultant who attended the three-day gathering of Hoover’s board, was stark. “What struck me,” the consultant wrote, was that nearly every official he heard from raised the virus “as a point of concern, totally unprovoked.”
A hedge fund consultant’s summary of private presentations by White House economic advisers fanned investor worries.
A hedge fund consultant’s summary of private presentations by White House economic advisers fanned investor worries.