# Professor Richard Sylla discusses why business leaders are leaving President Donald Trump's manufacturing advisory councils

1 Faculty News August 15, 2017 ![NBC News online logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_037262.gif?itok=6hhedDRK)>

Excerpt from [NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-blasts-ceos-leaving-his-advisory-councils-n792891) -- "So while there are disagreements, 'Usually it's over business issues,' said [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla), a professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business. But here, 'the business leaders are taking a moral stance on fundamental American issues.'"

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