Nick Timiraos

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1,192 appearances 14 recordings 5 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 17 Sep

Nick Timiraos’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 14 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.

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WSJ What’s News · What the Lisa Cook Decision Means for the Fed’s Independence · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

It forecloses one of the most direct ways that a president could pressure a chair by packing the board with loyalists who would outvote him, by threatening the governors around him.

So Warsh now has more room to operate independently.

That's exactly what

But it is showing that the bar for the Fed, the protection for the Fed, is greater now than for other independent regulatory bodies.

Well, yes, you do have appointees of Democratic and Republican presidents joining together in the majority.

I think if there was any surprise here, it was actually that it was 5-4-5.

and not 6-3.

There were some court watchers who thought that Justice Amy Coney Barrett might join with the majority on this.

And this issue is not fully resolved.

This is being reported as a big win for the Fed, and that's true in a narrow sense.

But the court today said Lisa Cook can stay on the board while she fights her case through the courts, and she will still have to do that.

Thanks for having me.

The Journal. · Why Alan Greenspan Is Key to Understanding Today’s Fed · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

And she later wrote about him that he wasn't the sort of man you would notice when he walked into the room.

She would have to reintroduce him to friends because they wouldn't remember who he was.

But he sort of became a player in the New York and Washington social scene.

You know, if we were recording this episode two years ago and you asked me, well, you know, what does the example of Alan Greenspan mean for today?

I would have had a much different answer than I do now because we now have a Fed chair who is pointing exactly to what he thinks the Fed should be, which is Alan Greenspan.

Kevin Walsh said at the swearing-in he wants to restore the Fed to what it was under Alan Greenspan.

If you care about how this new Fed is going to do business, then you definitely want to spend some time getting to understand the Fed as it operated under Alan Greenspan.

He was raised by his mother in Washington Heights in Manhattan.

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