Tag: Senate Banking Committee

Beltway Confidential

Radical Bernstein should not chair the Council of Economic Advisers

Quin Hillyer · May 9, 2023 11:39 pm

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., center, talks with Linda Juckette, center left, as he tours her farm Saturday, April 22, 2023, in Cumming, Iowa.

Hearing Tim Scott run the policy gamut is a treat

Quin Hillyer · April 27, 2023 10:00 am

Eric Holder and William Barr

Top banking regulators say stronger rules are needed in the wake of SVB collapse

Zach Halaschak · March 28, 2023 6:15 pm

Chairman Sherrod Brown speaks with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, left, just before Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell delivers his semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023.

SVB collapse: Six people to watch in banking disaster

Misty Severi · March 18, 2023 3:35 pm

Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Washington. The Federal Reserve intensified its drive to curb the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by a sizable half-percentage point.

Odds of big rate hike soar as Powell testifies more pain is coming

Zach Halaschak · March 7, 2023 4:58 pm

Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder and chief executive officer of FTX, in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried refuses to testify on company’s collapse before Senate

Misty Severi · December 13, 2022 12:53 am

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, before the Senate Banking Committee as lawmakers examine how to mitigate systemic risk in financial markets through Wall Street reforms.

Energy and Environment

Republicans accuse Gensler and SEC of stonewalling on climate rule

Zach Halaschak · July 21, 2022 7:24 pm

‘Designed for speculation’: Top Democrat slams cryptocurrencies after Super Bowl ad blitz

Ryan King · February 16, 2022 11:42 pm

Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard participates in an open meeting in Washington, Thursday, June 14, 2018. The board is meeting to discuss the final rule to establish single-counterparty credit limits for large U.S. bank holding companies and foreign banks.

Fed vice chairwoman nominee Brainard grilled by Republicans on climate change

Zach Halaschak · January 13, 2022 8:00 pm

Sen. Pat Toomey, the Pennsylvania Republican, speaks during a ceremony to award World War II veteran Clarence Smoyer, 96, the Bronze Star at the World War II Memorial, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington.

Finance and Economy

Boston Fed hasn’t answered GOP request on ‘woke’ initiatives after six months

Zach Halaschak · December 14, 2021 12:01 pm

Saule Omarova of New York is sworn in during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington to examine her nomination to be the Comptroller of the Currency, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021.

Controversial Biden banking nominee drops out of contention after bruising hearing

Zach Halaschak · December 7, 2021 8:57 pm

Powell says Federal Reserve could move faster toward rate hikes amid high inflation

Zach Halaschak · November 30, 2021 5:13 pm