Donald Trump’s top economic adviser Stephen Miran struggled to reassure leading bond investors in a meeting last week that followed a bout of intense tumult on Wall Street triggered by the president’s tariffs.
Miran, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, met representatives from top hedge funds and other major investors at the White House’s Eisenhower Executive Office building on Friday, said people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Some participants found Friday’s meeting counter-productive, with two people describing Miran’s comments around tariffs and markets as “incoherent” or incomplete, and one of them saying Miran was “out of his depth”.