Sarah Bloom Raskin, who withdrew her candidacy to be the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, speaks during a Senate confirmation hearing in February. — Sarah Bloom Raskin No, Raskin’s nomination was killed by the fossil fuel industry and its caucus in the Senate. The final decisive blow was delivered on Monday by Sen. Joe Manchin III, who said that …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Senate Republicans launched a scorch-earth attack this week on Sarah Bloom Raskin, the White House’s nominee to be the Federal Reserve’s vice chair of supervision, painting her as a radical for her widely shared view that climate change threatens the global economy. In a speech to a conference last summer, she also tempered expectations about what kinds …
