Lisa Cook’s Fed Appointment: Why Earth’s Markets Just Held Their Breath
Lisa Cook: How One American Economist Became the World’s Accidental Moral Barometer By Our Correspondent, Somewhere Over the Mid-Atlantic (Wi-Fi permitting) It began, as most modern morality plays do, on Twitter. When the U.S. Senate confirmed Lisa Cook—previously a quiet Michigan State professor who once compared recessions to bad dates (painful, inevitable, rarely the other…