George D. Gould | |
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Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance | |
Assumed office May 1985 | |
President | Ronald Reagan |
Personal details | |
Born | George Sumner Bradford Dana Gould May 22, 1927 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | April 26, 2022 Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. | (aged 94)
Occupation | Financier and banker |
George Sumner Bradford Dana Gould (May 22, 1927 – April 26, 2022) was an American financier and banker. Gould was a member of the board of Municipal Assistance Corporation that was constituted during the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis and briefly served as its chairman in 1979. He was the Undersecretary of the Treasury in the late 1980s during the Reagan administration. During this period he oversaw the savings and loan crisis, the aftermath of the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash, and the raising of the country's debt ceiling.