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Biden’s nominee for top Fed watchdog defends views on climate risks
Receive free US financial regulation updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US financial regulation news every morning. Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve’s top regulatory position has told a US Senate committee it is “inappropriate” for the US central bank to pick winners and losers in the economy…
Joe Biden’s FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn, Often At Odds With Media & Telecom Giants, Faces A Key Senate Vote
It’s a bit unusual when any FCC nomination becomes controversial — and even a bit strange when Tucker Carlson seizes on it. But that is what has been happening in recent months in the case of Gigi Sohn, a longtime public interest advocate whose nomination to fill a vacancy on the commission is scheduled to…
Biden’s Fed Nominee Lisa Cook Criticized For Being Unqualified, Embellishing Resume
On Jan. 13, President Joe Biden nominated economists Philip Jefferson and Lisa Cook for the two empty seats on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Sarah Bloom Raskin, a law professor at Duke University, was nominated to be vice-chair of Supervision. Cook is facing scrutiny as critics say she is not qualified for the job,…