This is a Premium piece of Notes on the Crises. Subscribe Tip! Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook was born and raised in Milledgeville Georgia, about a 100 miles away from Atlanta. She also shares a birth year with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which, among other things, gave| Notes on the Crises
The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point and projected it would do so twice more this year as concern grows at the central bank about the health of the nation’s labor market.| AP News
The history of this country is haunted by white men hunting down Black women because their flight, their freedom, and their refusal to bow threatened the whole architecture of white power.| NewsOne
Today on TAP: And so is Trump’s maneuver to take over the central bank. Even if he were to succeed, there is no good monetary cure for Trump’s economic carnage.| The American Prospect
It won’t work, but it sure will rattle the economy.| The American Prospect
President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s governing board has raised alarms among economists and legal experts.| AP News
The U.S. president's penchant for self-harm offers opportunity for stable democracies—if their leaders don't waste it| The Logic
It would be unusual for all of the other board members to serve out their entire terms, but if they did, then five of the six current members would remain in office beyond the end of Trump’s second…| Economist Writing Every Day
Today on TAP: Trump didn’t give a reason for firing other members of independent agencies. Roberts can say he gave one here.| The American Prospect
