The Ministry of Finance recruits "chief sanctions" to study how to "kill the enemy a thousand and not hurt yourself"!The media said that this was looking for "wizard"

Author:Red Star News Time:2022.09.23

According to reports, the US Treasury Department is recruiting a "chief sanction economist". Its work responsibilities include all aspects of monetary policy, exchange rates, and "energy, multilateral and bilateral assistance, official debt and related issues" to provide suggestions for the Ministry of Finance.

According to the media, the U.S. Treasury Department is looking for a sanctions "wizard", that is, while implementing economic sanctions, this person must be responsible for evaluating the possible damage that may be brought about to avoid serious economic impact caused by sanctions.

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According to a review report last year, US sanctions have increased by 933%in the past 20 years. For example, the U.S. Department of Finance's Overseas Asset Control Office (OFAC) now manages at least 37 individual sanctions plans, and about 12,000 individuals and entities are listed as the object of sanctions. According to the analysis, as the US government uses more and more sanctions, and the complexity is gradually increasing. Today, the Bayeng government hopes to restrict the accidents brought by economic sanctions, and one of the measures is to add this position.

Critics said the US sanctions plan was over -used and difficult to manage. Officials of the Ministry of Finance said that the work of chief sanctions economists will help alleviate part of concerns, because one of the priorities of their work is to avoid sanctions from bringing major economic shocks. For example, in 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on Russian companies, other Russian companies, which are related to the aluminum giant Rusal and other Russian companies, Oleg Deripaska, and then impacted the global aluminum market supply. Related sanctions one year later.

According to reports, chief sanctions economists will lead the US "SanctionS Economic Analysis Unit" to analyze the influence of the sanctions measures issued by the United States on the country's economy and finance to provide the US government with more professional Suggest. Vice Minister Voli Adegemo, deputy Minister of Finance, said: "This new, permanent sanctions analysis department will make our current and future (sanctions) plans more effective." He said that the office is the office. It helps to discover the "potential attachment effects and overflow effects" of the sanctions plan.

The position of chief sanctions economist requires applicants to obtain at least bachelor's degrees, with the lowest annual salary of $ 150,000 and a maximum of more than 176,000 US dollars. It is said that the department will also hire two employee -level economists.

Alex Pedz, deputy minister of the US Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Office, pointed out that the US government now wants to hire a person who has received some theoretical training but more focused on practical solutions. Predz emphasized in an interview with the media, "We don't want this person to write an academic papers of 460 pages of long -page long -term discussions."

Red Star News reporter Ding Wen

Editor Editor Zhu Jieying

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