president of goldman sachs as the president s senior economic adviser in the white house at a time when there s so much talk of a possible shakeup and the president being unhappy could it be if we see a shakeup and somebody gets fired here, not the president but simply a staff member we could see the markets hit, the staff members carry that much weight? i think they do in normal times. i think some of what the business community saw was excitement about the agenda, frasucture investment orax reform and they saw a business man as president, as kind of a center right and they were excited about that. but, obviously, all this has overtaken that and to your point i think all of the comey memo and everything, people now doubt that any of that can get done. so at some level with staff changes matter, a temporary change, perhaps, but only temporary. this flows from the start and starts with the executive. the markets aren t necessarily a direct reflection on the economy, but could this b