Lisa Cook, member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, attends a Federal Reserve Board open meeting discussing proposed revisions to the board’s supplementary leverage ratio standards at the Federal Reserve Board building in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, according …
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President Donald Trump is removing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook effective immediately, according to a letter he posted to Truth Social on Monday night. In the letter, Trump writes: “Pursuant to my authority under Article II of the Constitution of the United States and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, as amended, you are hereby removed from your position on …
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Moments after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s closely watched speech at the Jackson Hole symposium on Friday, President Donald Trump dramatically escalated his ongoing assault on the central bank’s leadership by threatening to fire governor Lisa Cook if she does not resign. The extraordinary move punctuated an already tense week for the central bank, as Trump has been criticizing Cook …
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MORAN, Wyo.—Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled Friday that the central bank could be edging closer to lowering interest rates, even as he warned of the difficult economic backdrop confronting policymakers. Speaking at the Kansas City Fed’s annual Jackson Hole symposium, Powell described an unsettling mix of risks. “In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, …
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President Donald Trump said Friday that he will fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook if she doesn’t resign. “What she did was bad. So I’ll fire her if she doesn’t resign,” he told reporters. Trump’s comment came days after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte alleged that Cook had committed mortgage fraud. In a letter to Attorney General Pam …
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