Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Yale management professor known as the “CEO whisperer,” says corporate leaders are far more worried about President Donald Trump’s threat to democracy than about any single economic policy.
Sonnenfeld, president of Yale’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute, told CNN’s “Newsroom” on Monday that Republicans make up roughly 70% to 75% of the executives who participate in his CEO gatherings.
But about 80% of all those business leaders say they are disappointed with the economy under Trump, he noted.
“They’ll go through specifics about what they don’t like. Tariff policies and the independence of the Fed,” Sonnenfeld explained. “But more than anything else, it’s the corrosive effect on and threat to the free enterprise system of not having a functioning democracy” that most worries them, he added.
Dangerous myths about medicine spread fastest when watchdogs are silenced. Become a member today and help us safeguard science, protect health, and keep the public informed.
