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Lisa Cook is a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, voting on U.S. monetary policy including interest rate and inflation decisions.
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Fed Governor Lisa Cook says about $2 trillion in announced AI investment is pushing up input costs such as electricity before it delivers productivity gains. Her doubt that the Fed can still look through supply shocks links data-center spending to rates in 2027.
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Federal Reserve stress-test reforms finalized Wednesday put large-bank scenarios out for public comment each January and average results over two years. Banks now get a say in the inputs to their capital requirements, so the question for shareholders is whether banks release the excess capital they have held against random results.
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Kevin Hassett, the White House's top economist, says three-month core inflation near 2% leaves the Fed little room to raise rates. Wednesday's August PCE release will test his window on the inflation gauge the Fed itself prefers.
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July CPI at 0.1% and flat PPI took the near-term rate scare off the table. What is left holding up records above 7,800 is a bet on how long GPUs stay useful.
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Core services and a sudden run-up in computer prices are holding the Fed's preferred gauge 1.35 points above target. Futures put the September choice at hold or hike.
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The FDIC, Federal Reserve, OCC and NCUA want examiners looking harder at transparency, contract structure and technology inside core servicing deals. The guidance carrying that expectation is non-binding, with 60 days for comment.
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Semafor reports that Scott Bessent warned Bloomberg's editor-in-chief of different treatment from Treasury if a story about his two principal residences ran. It ran, and he has stayed off Bloomberg Television since.
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Dana Peterson expects no hike next month while markets price one, and her reasoning rests on a consumer decline now reaching independents and Republicans rather than on inflation reports that will not exist by the time the committee sits.
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Treasury is doubling its purchases of long-term debt while the Fed plans to shrink its own book, and the former Kansas City Fed president told Semafor that nobody at Jackson Hole mentioned that for a reason.
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Cook's response makes intent the whole question. Whether "for cause" carries fraud's intent requirement decides how reachable a Fed governor's vote is, and rates desks hold that answer.
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The White House has started a removal process the Supreme Court declined to define, with Governor Lisa Cook due to respond by Aug. 26. The standard set will outlast this board.
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