The voluble Goldman Sachs economist who drew President Trump’s fury this week has backed lefty government spending for years – and even once wrote a $2,300 check to fund Barack Obama’s first White House bid, On The Money has learned.

Jan Hatzius – a fixture on financial TV and the chief spokesman of the firm’s economic forecasting – was one of the few economists who called the housing bubble that led to the 2008 financial crisis. He has also pushed for progressive policies over the years, say right-of-center Wall Streeters who have studied his economic forecasts.

Now Hatzius is targeting Trump’s tariff war with a research note this week predicting that US consumers will bear the brunt of it . That drew a sharp rebuke from The Donald, who first went after Goldman CEO David Solomon – tw

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