Senate confirms Biden Fed nominee Lisa Cook after bruising nomination fight

By Zach Halaschak

Published May 10, 2022 11:15pm ET

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Senate confirms Biden Fed nominee Lisa Cook after bruising nomination fight — The Senate has voted to confirm economist Lisa Cook for a top position at the Federal Reserve. Cook, a professor of economics at Michigan State University who served under President Barack Obama as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers, was confirmed to a seat on the Fed’s Board of Governors on Tuesday […]

The Senate has voted to confirm economist Lisa Cook for a top position at the Federal Reserve.

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