Mnuchin like a throwback to heavyweight predecessors such as Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers and James Baker III.

Mr Mnuchin plans that would restore the status of the Treasury department as the vital driver of economic policy. 

For those who can remember the pre-crisis era, it felt like a throwback to heavyweight predecessors such as Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers and James Baker III.

FT 1 December 2016