A condo in Midtown Atlanta is at the center of President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to fire a Georgia-born governor of the Federal Reserve.
Trump had been criticizing the independent Federal Reserve for months for declining to slash interest rates, which the central banking system’s governors help decide.
Now, he has moved to fire one of them: Lisa Cook, an economist and former professor at Michigan State University, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022.
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