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  • Fed Governor Lisa Cook's Record Is a Reminder of the Social Justice Insanity of 2020

    09/01/2025 3:40:17 PM PDT · by Twotone · 4 replies
    Reason ^ | August 28, 2025 | Robby Soave
    President Donald Trump is attempting to fire Lisa Cook, one of the board members of the Federal Reserve. Mainstream commentators have described this as an unprecedented attack on the Fed's autonomy—no president has ever dismissed a member of the board, which is supposed to operate independent of political pressure—while conservatives say the allegations against Cook make her a special case. (Many libertarians, on the other hand, care less about tinkering with the Fed's composition and instead want to abolish it outright.) The Trump administration has accused Cook of committing mortgage fraud; William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency,...
  • Suddenly the Democrats Want an Independent Fed

    09/01/2025 3:36:10 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 4 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | Aug. 31, 2025 11:06 am ET | Allysia Finley
    They politicized the central bank under Obama and Biden, including by appointing Lisa Cook.It’s hard not to gag over the dirges in the press for the Federal Reserve’s “independence.” Or the encomiums to Gov. Lisa Cook, the Biden appointee President Trump fired last week, who has become a martyr for a cause Democrats didn’t much care about when they were in charge of Washington. “How the Future of the Fed Came to Rest on Lisa Cook” was a front-page New York Times headline on Saturday. Please. Democrats during the Obama and Biden presidencies tried to co-opt the central bank to...