Althouse: "As a Black woman in economics... I know that part of what’s going on with [Lisa] Cook has to do with the ongoing mistreatment Black women in economics face."

September 6, 2025

"As a Black woman in economics... I know that part of what’s going on with [Lisa] Cook has to do with the ongoing mistreatment Black women in economics face."

"Back in 2017, Governor Cook and I authored an an op-ed in the New York Times titled 'It Was a Mistake for Me to Choose this Field.' In the piece, we discussed how the disproportionate harassment and discrimination Black women face in the economics discipline as well as the severe underrepresentation we experience. Since writing the piece, the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession reported in 2024 that only four Black women graduated with doctoral degrees in economics among 1,385 graduates, or nearly 0.3 percent of doctoral recipients.... I keenly remember when Cook was nominated to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2022. Critics and naysayers loudly questioned her expertise and the bigotry and harassment that she and I wrote about in 2017 became her harsh reality...."

Writes Anna Gifty, in "Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women/We all stand to lose if he gets away with it" (Public Notice).

121 comments:

rhhardin said...: There used to be talk of the infinite sweetness of old black ladies. Maybe grok can find the line.; 9/6/25, 8:26 AM
Iman said...: Did Lisa Cook commit mortgage fraud - three times, it’s alleged - or did she not? If she did, she should do the honorable thing and resign. The rest is bullshit dressed up to distract.; 9/6/25, 8:26 AM
gilbar said...: it's important to remember..
that to black people.. especially black WOMEN..
black people can do NO WRONG..
ANY thing they do, is OKAY.. because they are black

mortgage fraud... OKAY
voter fraud.. OKAY
killing your exwife.. OKAY
running from the police.. OKAY

don't get me Wrong, *i* am Not saying this, THEY DO; 9/6/25, 8:33 AM
Tarrou said...: Did all that white supremacy stop chinese, indians and jews from getting economics degrees? Or is it much more specific?; 9/6/25, 8:34 AM
Maynard said...: I am pretty sure that Ms. Gifty believes that a much more stringent DEI approach to both law enforcement and graduate studies is needed for oppressed Black women.

Of course, she knows this is all another race hustle. Jesse Jackson would be proud.; 9/6/25, 8:35 AM
Michael said...: These kind of cheap cries of Racism! are now so exhausted and absurd.; 9/6/25, 8:37 AM
Aggie said...: Well, we're movin' on up ! sez Lisa the Leaser.; 9/6/25, 8:40 AM
Krumhorn said...: Ms Gifty writes hurty words about whitey.

- Krumhorn; 9/6/25, 8:42 AM
Leland said...: All Democrats ever see is skin color and then react accordingly.; 9/6/25, 8:43 AM
David53 said...: “I illustrate in “The Double Tax” how Black women face the compounded cost of racism and sexism…”

Yes, whites bad, white men double bad.; 9/6/25, 8:46 AM
tommyesq said...: Critics and naysayers loudly questioned her expertise and the bigotry and harassment that she and I wrote about in 2017 became her harsh reality...."

... and caused her to commit mortgage fraud on multiple occasions? Note that the author, Anna Grifty, does not say that Cook did nothing wrong or that the fraud allegations are false.; 9/6/25, 8:47 AM
Krumhorn said...: Doesn’t everyone already know that the field of economics is filled with a complete dataset of terminal degreed peckerwoods?

- Krumhorn; 9/6/25, 8:55 AM
Mark said...: Tommyesq, there are multiple cabinet members who also own multiple 'primary residences' according to their mortgages.

If this is such a heinous charge, shouldn't they be removing everyone who did this? Or just the black lady who did it?; 9/6/25, 8:57 AM
Dave Begley said...: Lady, race has nothing to do with this. Cook - wrongly - wanted a lower mortgage rate so she intentionally lied.

Lock her up!; 9/6/25, 8:58 AM
Peachy said...: I don't give a rat's butt what color your skin is - if you are a lying money grubbing crook - you are one.; 9/6/25, 9:00 AM
FormerLawClerk said...: Trump's attack on Cook is an attack on CRIMINALS, who are disproportionately black people in our society.

So much so that we should be seriously considering the removal of those convicted of crimes back to their homeland of origin.

Black people commit TOO MUCH of the crime in America. Way too much. So it's hardly surprising that if we look for criminals at the Federal Reserve, we're going to find that the only black one is also the only one defrauding banks.; 9/6/25, 9:01 AM
Peachy said...: Hiding your crimes behind gender and skin color = a democratic deal.; 9/6/25, 9:01 AM
Peachy said...: added -> The white left approve..; 9/6/25, 9:02 AM
Wince said...: “Governor Cook and I authored an an op-ed in the New York Times titled 'It Was a Mistake for Me to Choose this Field.'”

Clearly, Cook is a Marxist economist.

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
- Groucho Marx; 9/6/25, 9:02 AM
Tarrou said...: Mark, Congress is full of people who paid off mistresses. Why isn't Letitia James charging all of them with a felony for every check? When everyone is a criminal, all prosecution is political.; 9/6/25, 9:02 AM
FormerLawClerk said...: And keep in mind - her FRAUD is ONGOING. She is currently receiving benefits from her fraud in the form of lower interest rates from the banks she defrauded.

She hasn't repaid those mortgages - even knowing she obtained them fraudulently. She admits she did that and told Biden officials of that prior to her appointment.

But she never paid back the loans. She's STILL defrauding these banks, knowing that she is ABOVE THEIR LAWS because she has a race card and a pussy.

Trump should have US Marshall's arrest her for trespassing on federal property - which can be fined at $5,000 per trespassing offense.; 9/6/25, 9:05 AM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: Mark, the answer is yes. If they broke the law, treat them the same. No exceptions for coddled government employees.; 9/6/25, 9:06 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Here's the first Tweet in a thread from Christopher F. Rufo last April (link). Read the whole thread before you defend her:

"EXCLUSIVE: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is one of the most powerful economists in the world. But @LukeRosiak and I have discovered that her academic work appears to contain plagiarism, according to her former university’s policy.

"The plagiarism scandal hits the Fed."; 9/6/25, 9:08 AM
Peachy said...: Letita James must be punished for her crimes.; 9/6/25, 9:10 AM
Ampersand said...: It's useful to have a serious wrong that can be endlessly redefined and never disproven.; 9/6/25, 9:10 AM
Aught Severn said...: Said without evidence: Tommyesq, there are multiple cabinet members who also own multiple 'primary residences' according to their mortgages.

If they violated the law, by all means, prosecute. In this particular case, the paperwork signed on the two mortgages, as I understand, was dated within weeks of each other. I had a good run where I applied for "primary residence" mortgages in 2015, 2017, and 2020 in CA, WA, and VA, respectively. 2 of those 3 are now rentals and one was sold. But I am sure the mortgages still indicate what we had marked. Am I not getting prosecuted because I am not a black woman? No. I am not getting prosecuted because I did nothing illegal. These cabinet members you refer to... what are their specifics?; 9/6/25, 9:12 AM
Ice Nine said...: >the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession reported in 2024 that only four Black women graduated with doctoral degrees in economics among 1,385 graduates<

That mean ol' Whitey is at it again.

Here's a pretty uncomplicated solution for the poor, oppressed Black women: Go to grad school in Economics. Most universities are seeking more students, to combat declining enrollment trends, so it shouldn't be a problem. Warning: It will involve some work.; 9/6/25, 9:13 AM
Dr Weevil said...: Mark (8:57am):
Is it true that "there are multiple cabinet members who also own multiple 'primary residences' according to their mortgages"? On the Sunrise thread (three posts down) I just quoted a tweet from Lee Zeldin, one of the three accused of doing that, who very plausibly says that he had two different primary residences at different times, because he moved, and that he did everything by the book when he changed primary residences. It appears that the accusation against "multiple cabinet members" may be a lie and a fraud by political axe-grinders. Not the first such case, of course.; 9/6/25, 9:14 AM
planetgeo said...: The problem with liberals and their misguided paternalism regarding black people isn't just "the soft bigotry of low expectations". Even worse, it's the full acceptance and even defense of unacceptable and societally destructive behavior as though it's some imagined earned credit for past wrongs.

It perpetuates that kind of behavior to the continued detriment of not only society in general but also the black race in particular. One might start to think that's actually the purpose of those who do the perpetuating.; 9/6/25, 9:14 AM
n.n said...: DEIsm (e.g. racism, sexism) is an insidious psychosis and progressive condition exhibited with liberal license that should be aborted, sequestered.; 9/6/25, 9:16 AM
William said...: As Grouch Marx purportedly said, "That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard"; 9/6/25, 9:16 AM
n.n said...: It sounds like something pulled out of a back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP at the intersection of racism and sexism to be exploited for leverage and profit. Fortunately, DEism is a minority philosophy and practice that is a personal "burden" h/t Obama that can be Planned for character improvement and relief. #HateLovesAbortion; 9/6/25, 9:21 AM
Levi Starks said...: So what they’re saying is that it’s impossible to judge a black woman on merit.; 9/6/25, 9:24 AM
Peachy said...: Related:
A Smollette moment of the day.
Racism - it's all on the left.; 9/6/25, 9:26 AM
Biff said...: "in 2024 that only four Black women graduated with doctoral degrees in economics among 1,385 graduates"

I've been in and around academia for decades. It's hard to imagine an economics department that wouldn't go to extraordinary lengths to recruit, accept, and support a Black woman who was vaguely within shouting distance of minimal admissions criteria.; 9/6/25, 9:28 AM
tommyesq said...: Back in 2017, Governor Cook and I authored an an op-ed in the New York Times titled “It Was a Mistake for Me to Choose this Field.”

Well, Trump is helping Cook to correct that mistake!; 9/6/25, 9:29 AM
Shouting Thomas said...: According to Megyn Kelly, admittedly a partisan commenter, Cook’s fraud goes far beyond the mortgage stuff. Her economics doctorate at MSU seems questionable, as does her elevation to a professorship. As Kelly states it, Cook’s credentials were “DEI’ed.” With legs like Kelly, how could she be wrong?; 9/6/25, 9:32 AM
boatbuilder said...: Go ahead--choose the hill of Lisa Cook's qualifications as an economist to die on. Trump's going to win this one.; 9/6/25, 9:37 AM
TickTock1948 said...: Such BS. Any thoughtful person (which one would hope most government officials are) would understand that if a member of the federal reserve can do this without consequence, then it sends a message that anyone can. Despite the evidence that many government officials don't think at all, standards must be enforced. No thinking person believes that the standard of conduct for society should be set by the inappropriate behavior of government officials. This is why Hillary should have been prosecuted as well. Ceasers wife and all of that.; 9/6/25, 9:40 AM
Biff said...: PS. Anna Gifty is a graduate student in "Public Policy and Economics" at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. I give her a lot of credit for being able to promote her career while still in her twenties.

FWIW, I think that there is a lot of merit in an interdisciplinary approach to public policy and economics. In Gifty's case, it looks like the emphasis is on the public policy side, not on the economics side, i.e., studying at the Kennedy School instead of the completely separate Economics Department. To take a more sinister view, it is one of the ways that DEI hires can claim the mantle of a profession without taking the most rigorous path. You'll find that a significant number of Black professors of engineering, astronomy, etc. are actually professors of pedagogy, charged with identifying new "ways of knowing" and elaborating theories of bias, rather than practicing the central profession. It works for the departments, since it makes it easier to claim a diverse faculty.; 9/6/25, 9:45 AM
gilbar said...: for fun,
please remember that BU gave a Bachelors degree in Econ to Sandy Cortez..
a bartender that BU had hired for a recruiting video,
(because of her great attitude*)

her great attitude* that is to say: her perky boobs; 9/6/25, 9:48 AM
tommyesq said...: Tommyesq, there are multiple cabinet members who also own multiple 'primary residences' according to their mortgages.

It is not necessarily a crime to own multiple houses with "primary residence" mortgages. Getting a primary residence mortgage is not committing to live in the house until the mortgage is paid off.

Of the three people in Trump's cabinet who were identified, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy obtained a primary residence mortgage in 2021 in New Jersey and in February 2025 obtained a primary residence mortgage for his new Washington, D.C., residence, where his new job brought him.
Both mortgages are held by the same bank, which was “fully informed” of the transportation secretary’s new employment. A White House spokesperson added that “the bank, not the secretary, determined and classified both mortgages as primary residences.”

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin bought a primary residence house in Long Island in 2007, and then obtained a primary residency mortgage for the DC home he moved into last year. As with Duffy, he notified the bank holding the first mortgage.

Labor Secretary Lois Chavez-DeRemer is probably the closest to the Cook situation. She bought a home on a primary residence mortgage in Arizona in 2021, claiming an intent to retire there, but later decided to run for Congress in Oregon and either bought or refinanced an Oregon home on a primary residence mortgage (article isn't clear on that).

My understanding of the allegations against Cook are that she submitted two "primary residence" mortgages within two weeks of one another, and that she obtained a "secondary residence" mortgage on a home that she instead rented out, also in the same year. Apples and oranges on all but possibly Chavez-DeRemer, who at least did appear to have a good-faith basis for the claim on both mortgages (and who may have notified the first mortgage-holder of the change, the stories I have seen do not say).; 9/6/25, 9:50 AM
gilbar said...: Shouting Thomas asked...
With legs like Kelly, how could she be wrong?

Kelly is Another women with a great attitude; 9/6/25, 9:50 AM
Disparity of Cult said...: "Related:
A Smollette moment of the day.
Racism - it's all on the left."

The black men that he spat at could likely press charges for assault and battery, or seek civil damages.; 9/6/25, 9:54 AM
tommyesq said...: "in 2024 that only four Black women graduated with doctoral degrees in economics among 1,385 graduates"

If you are a black woman who has a doctorate in economics and have held several high positions in academia and government, and you want to encourage the public to be more accepting of black women getting these degrees and positions, perhaps you, as the FIRST BLACK WOMAN GOVERNER of the FED should try not to commit quite so much fraud.; 9/6/25, 9:57 AM
tommyesq said...: More on the Trump Cabinet Members accused (falsely) of the same crime - most mortgages, including all government-backed mortgages, require you to intend to move in within 60 days of the close of the mortgage and to live at the house for at least one year to qualify for a primary residence mortgage. ONE YEAR. And even that is only a bona fide intention to do so, not a contractual commitment.; 9/6/25, 10:00 AM
mezzrow said...: "follow me on BlueSky" - Anna Gifty; 9/6/25, 10:09 AM
Kai Akker said...: Headlines We Never Finished Reading:
As a Black woman in economics,; 9/6/25, 10:09 AM
Mason G said...: "More on the Trump Cabinet Members accused (falsely) of the same crime..."

Because buying a house, living in it and then several years later, buying another house in a different city and moving there to live in that one is EXACTLY THE SAME as applying for home loans for two properties at the same time and claiming that you will be living in both.

Right?; 9/6/25, 10:16 AM
Patrick Henry was right! said...: Racism claims and global warming. The answers to every question. If you're a Democrat or global leftist.; 9/6/25, 10:17 AM
jim said...: I never before thought about the lack of black women in economics. Once pointed out, it's obviously true.

Going back to undergraduate majors, black women in social sciences tended towards political science and sociology. Leaving aside those destined for business and law schools, under grads in social sciences generally think they will learn to understand and maybe improve the world.

Economics teachers rapidly disabuse the idealistic of those notions, while in my experience other disciplines encourage them (nothing nefarious there, it's their nature.) Economics strives to be a cold analytical science, which has led it to dwell on its own techniques rather than its original Benthamite mission to understand and improve the world.

Additionally, to be successful in economics you need to get started with a pretty firm grasp of math, and you'd better like math and enjoy learning more math. I'm personally shocked by the low state of high school math education in the US. I doubt that many black women take AP calculus: not encouraged by school or family; not available; what ever the reason.; 9/6/25, 10:21 AM
Political Junkie said...: I am not too impressed by Lisa Cook, for a Fed Board governor. I knew a much, much more impressive Black woman decades ago.
Separately, I always notice when someone cites low Black percentages in some area and assumes White racism is the cause. These same folk never worry about how few Asians there are in professional basketball and football. Is that also White racism?; 9/6/25, 10:22 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Mark, it is not a crime to actually have lived in and still own a house that is no longer your primary residence because you moved into a different primary residence years later which the case in at least 2 of the 3 cases you mentioned. What Cook appears to have done is to have had no intention whatsoever of living in at least 2 of the houses for which she got a primary residence mortgages because it was literally impossible for her do so.; 9/6/25, 10:24 AM
Sebastian said...: "the ongoing mistreatment Black women in economics" Judging by reports of her tenure file, she received unusually supportive treatment from her dean, even after an apparently negative departmental vote, given her thin research record. Since even that blatant affirmative action doesn't prevent her allies from playing the race card, the saga confirms again that no special treatment for African-Americans, no symbolic or materal reparations, will put racism claims to rest.; 9/6/25, 10:25 AM
Political Junkie said...: As a followup, the same could be said regarding engineering. The very, very impressive Black woman I knew closey decades ago was one of a few in the field. She did encounter some instances of White idiocy, but this woman has risen far in Corporate America. Lisa Cook can't carry this woman's bra.; 9/6/25, 10:26 AM
hombre said...: When prominent black Democrats talk about “harassment and discrimination” they usually refer to a lack of deference that is often a consequence of affirmative action of some sort. Add “black woman” to the mix and, “Oh my.” Justice Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson Is the highest placed black woman in the US. What do we see? Calvin v. Hobbs?; 9/6/25, 10:32 AM
gspencer said...: Taking another dip in the Wallowing-in-Self-Pity swimming pool.; 9/6/25, 10:37 AM
james said...: Mark, bluntly, I think it is more likely that you are a bold face liar than that you have proof that current cabinet members have done what Lisa Cook unambiguously did. Put up or shut up. Give us links to digital copies of their mortgage applications.

But to answer your question, if there is prima facia evidence that they committed mortgage fraud that they cannot adequately explain in short order, yes they need to be gone quickly, and a criminal investigation needs to be opened.

I'll note, that multiple RWers here have echoed this. Yet every LWer manages to dismiss the clear evidence in the case of Lisa Cook and insist she should not be held to account. Why don't you explain that disparity. Since you're only concerned with truth and justice.

It becomes increasingly difficult for a sane person to disguise their contempt for most progressives.; 9/6/25, 10:37 AM
rehajm said...: Yes- did she commit fraud on her applications or not?

The question I want answered is what do the tax records show? Is she taking a primary residence credit on her property taxes for more than one place? Since nobody is doing the work I will give it a go- this is all public record stuff, so..

She took a residential exemption on the Ann arbor property

The tax bill for the Four Seasons property in Atlanta does not show any city or county exemptions for her time owning the property.

Could not find a Cambridge property, not searchable by name

I didn't bother to try running the tax calculation for any locale, as the rate calc were not easily discovered on any of the community websites...

...so, there is my conclusion: maybe but in inconclusive...; 9/6/25, 10:37 AM
rehajm said...: Critics and naysayers loudly questioned her expertise and the bigotry and harassment that she and I wrote about in 2017 became her harsh reality

It doesn't appear to occur to any of them the questioning of her expertise by economic peers was legitimate. Maybe she's just stupid? What would that look like? My guess is exactly what is described- rebuttal and rejection, perhaps vigorous, by others in the profession. Peer review can be that way. Isn't it supposed to be that way?; 9/6/25, 10:46 AM
hombre said...: Mark: “Tommyesq, there are multiple cabinet members who also own multiple 'primary residences' according to their mortgages.” Source please, if you expect us to pretend that is the issue.; 9/6/25, 10:48 AM
Matt said...: Maybe - just maybe - if blacks have problems everywhere they go (i.e. this article, BLM groups in EVERY white country) they are the problem.; 9/6/25, 10:49 AM
james said...: Mark, I've seen your subsequent post now. I'll give you some marginal credit for correcting yourself. But it isn't NEARLY enough. The appropriate response is a groveling apology followed by a full threated condemnation of Cook and an insistence she withdraw her suit and accept her termination.; 9/6/25, 10:50 AM
Matt said...: The white lady Deputy Prime Minister of the UK resigned yesterday for not paying taxes on one of her houses. What makes Lisa Cook so fng special that she shouldn't have to?; 9/6/25, 10:51 AM
Enigma said...: The negative image of economics is not about blacks or women. Economics is known as the "Dismal Science" for good reason. Throw 'em all out and don't listen any more. They are half accountants and half lawyers, but subject to the unavoidable human biases laid out by behavioral economics.

The first economist to go should be the inane drooler Paul Krugman -- professor, Nobel Prize winner, and NYT writer. He's white and male and for decades has spouted nothing but political propaganda.; 9/6/25, 10:54 AM
n.n said...: A black women in statecraft. A black man in judiciary. An orange man in executive suite. DEIsm is a clear and progressive problem (PP).; 9/6/25, 10:57 AM
rehajm said...: ...and in this process another bit of stupid I stumbled upon we'll probably hear more about: the claim her mortgages were at rates 'above the national averages of the time'- a manipulative statistic. The relevant metric, if there is one, would be did she receive a more favourable rate on one or more of the loans because she claimed they were her primary residence. Usually the rates are lower because of it...; 9/6/25, 10:58 AM
G. Poulin said...: Gee, there's a disparate impact on lousy economists. Who would have guessed?; 9/6/25, 11:00 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: Great information and comments on the Cook vs Cabinet Members. Off topic: I have never met a liberal who didn't cheat on his\her taxes. Or a conservative. IF given the chance and thinking they wouldn't be caught. I remember Hillary doing the charitable deduction BS on Bill's underwear. She overvalued it (and other pieces of clothing) so she should have surrendered to authorities right then and there (I wish); 9/6/25, 11:09 AM
mccullough said...: In a grifting society, the High Status Blacks are grifters too.; 9/6/25, 11:15 AM
William said...: The NBA routinely discriminates against Americans of average height. This has had a disparate impact on whites of average ability. Beyond this, there's the fact that not one Asian of below average height has ever played in the NBA. Not one.....Then there are the Everest expeditions. They have made no efforts to make their services accessible to the wheelchair bound or the visually impaired.; 9/6/25, 11:21 AM
William said...: I'm not really super outraged about her mortgage fraud. It was a scam but not of Enron or Madoff quality. Her academic qualifications, however, are very modest and they might cut of the same material as her mortgage applications.....On the other hand, there's the example of Paul Krugman. It's possible that the entire Economics field is itself a scam. In the past, such economists of heralded brilliance as Benjamin Strong and Alan Greenspan led the the economy off a cliff. Her marginal skills have perhaps blunted the effectiveness of her idiocy.; 9/6/25, 11:29 AM
Kirk Parker said...: > Any thoughtful person (which one would hope most government officials are)

Reaching for new levels of naivety, are we?; 9/6/25, 11:29 AM
n.n said...: Black boulders in geology.; 9/6/25, 11:31 AM
Stan Smith said...: "only four Black women graduated with doctoral degrees in economics among 1,385 graduates,"

My father was the dean of the Geology department at a small New Mexico college. He was approached by a person from the government in charge of funding, who said the funding was in danger of cease because the department "didn't have any black professors." My dad responded thusly: "There are only 4 current PhD holders of Geology in the U.S., and they are all currently employed elsewhere as professors. What would you have me do?"

Similarly, while enrolled in the UCLA film department in the late 60s, a friend of mine of Hispanic descent lamented that he was the only one in the program. We investigated with the registrar and found that, in fact, there was NO discrimination, as he was the ONLY student of Hispanic descent that had applied.

Sometimes, it's necessary to actually look at what the situation actually is, rather than leaping to the conclusion that discrimination is present.; 9/6/25, 11:31 AM
DanTheMan said...: Anytime I hear the opening phrase "As a ______, " I know that what follows is going to be nonsense.; 9/6/25, 11:31 AM
effinayright said...: Odd: the ProPublica article revealing the "primary residence" issue in Trump's cabinet says this:

"Real estate experts say claiming primary residences on different mortgages at the same time is often legal and rarely prosecuted."

If so, it's not cut and dried. If the Trump cabinet people named did the same thing as Cook, how can he point the finger at her and not them?

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud; 9/6/25, 11:39 AM
Iman said...: Propubicla is not known for even-handedness.; 9/6/25, 11:50 AM
Jupiter said...: Is Anna Gifty also, by any chance, a serial plagiarist?; 9/6/25, 11:53 AM
FullMoon said...: Awww, poor baby.

"Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows my sorrow
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Glory, Hallelujah"; 9/6/25, 12:00 PM
Iman said...: Shouting Thomas said...
“According to Megyn Kelly, admittedly a partisan commenter, Cook’s fraud goes far beyond the mortgage stuff. Her economics doctorate at MSU seems questionable, as does her elevation to a professorship…”

Yep… and Kelly was basing that on the deep diving Christopher Rufo is doing re: Lisa Cook’s credentials/bonafides.; 9/6/25, 12:02 PM
Hey Skipper said...: It's appalling how many people can't spell DIE.; 9/6/25, 12:09 PM
Jupiter said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/6/25, 12:12 PM
Jupiter said...: Meanwhile, here's the ongoing mistreatment white women face.; 9/6/25, 12:14 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Iman (12:02pm) and Shouting Thomas (9:32am):
That 'deep dive' by Christopher F. Rufo is linked in my 9:08am comment above. Always read the previous comments before posting your own.; 9/6/25, 12:17 PM
n.n said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/6/25, 12:19 PM
n.n said...: When the PoO hits the Fed, the braying reaches a DEIst cacophony.; 9/6/25, 12:21 PM
n.n said...: Critical Diversity Theory and Cecile's Scalpel suggest there is less to this apology than a fetus... feature of DEIst conception.; 9/6/25, 12:25 PM
Temujin said...: Any thought or sentence beginning with 'As a Black woman..." instantly loses me. As a human.
They- Black women of a certain education level- love to think of themselves as something apart from or special to the human species.
They are neither apart nor special. We are all individuals. And though some Black women may think their place in this country is precarious because they are Black women, well...I'd say that's a mental issue with them.
It is said that life is what you make of it. If you believe you are apart and being specially singled out you tend to treat the world around you like you are. And so, you become what you spoke of. You brought your angst to life. And then people like me comment about it and make you even more mad that I, as a White man, would have the nerve to comment on you, a Black woman (in economics, no less).

It cheapens who you are as an individual. It cheapens you, it cheapens your accomplishments. And it cheapens every other Black woman, putting a label on them all.
We are not all what the group is. The group is mixture of thousands/millions of individuals. Not a thing in and of itself. The entire statement, "as a Black woman in (fill in the blank)", is nonsense.; 9/6/25, 12:36 PM
Mason G said...: "We are not all what the group is."

The (or "a", anyway) fundamental difference between right and left is that the right recognizes the individual as the unit of measurement in a society while the left sees the group as primary, with the individual being defined by whatever characteristics are assigned to the group as a whole.; 9/6/25, 12:48 PM
n.n said...: Temujin: Yes, Diversity is an umbrella incorporation of bloc ideologies. Humans are properly recognized as a diversity of individuals, minority of one.; 9/6/25, 12:52 PM
effinayright said...: Iman said...
Propubicla is not known for even-handedness.
*********

Agreed. I found it strange they were attacking the cabinet officials, while also **claiming** their purported actions didn't arise to crimes.

Seems like they were defending Cook and accusing the Cabinet.

That's hardly an even-handed approach.

I hope someone will do a deep-dive on the legalites to sort this out.; 9/6/25, 12:54 PM
n.n said...: I have a dream, that one day [our Posterity] will be judged by the character of their principles and not their color or class. #HateLovesAbortion; 9/6/25, 12:55 PM
n.n said...: Even differences of sex: male and female, have limited application in principle and practice.; 9/6/25, 12:57 PM
Biff said...: jim said...

"Additionally, to be successful in economics you need to get started with a pretty firm grasp of math, and you'd better like math and enjoy learning more math. I'm personally shocked by the low state of high school math education in the US. I doubt that many black women take AP calculus: not encouraged by school or family; not available; what ever the reason."

It's a good point. I recall attending an event at an Ivy League school a few years ago focusing on the experiences of first generation students in the STEM fields. A female black student spoke of her anger at the school for admitting her as a prospective physics major without providing academic support. Her high school didn't offer any AP classes, so the highest math she took was algebra.

If you arrive at a top tier school without calculus — and you are not a generational genius — you quite simply are not going to be competitive against nearly any other student majoring in physics at that institution. No amount of summer remediation courses or tutoring is going to fix that.

The student did have a point; she seemed bright and genuinely interested in physics, but she was admitted under false pretenses. She would have been much better served by taking a year or two to study more math before applying or by deciding to go t.o a school where her fellow students had similar preparation. Unfortunately, she'll probably end up blaming the physics department instead of the liberal arts majors in the admissions office...and she'll end up majoring in a grievance studies program with a goal of making the sciences more "equitable".; 9/6/25, 12:59 PM
Humperdink said...: Does the name Thomas Sowell, Ph’d economics, University of Chicago ring a bell?; 9/6/25, 1:05 PM
Mason G said...: "A female black student spoke of her anger at the school for admitting her as a prospective physics major without providing academic support."

So- angry at leftists for doing what leftists do. It would be interesting to learn how she votes.; 9/6/25, 1:10 PM
Kevin said...: degrees in economics among 1,385 graduates, or nearly 0.3 percent of doctoral recipients.

So it was a miracle she graduated and yet another miracle to be nominated to the Fed.

Two miracles! What are the odds?

The third miracle of living in two places at the same time was just a miracle too far.; 9/6/25, 1:13 PM
loudogblog said...: "Black women face in the economics discipline as well as the severe underrepresentation we experience."

Notice how she says "we" instead of "they."

She was represented, they were underrepresented.

She totally has to make this about herself even though she was represented. So why couldn't the other black women do what she did to be represented?; 9/6/25, 1:18 PM
john mosby said...: Ref Ec and math: at Harvard, you can still get an ec degree with just a year of single-variable calculus and a year of statistics. If you want Latin honors in field (which grad programs probably look for), you need a year of multivariate calculus. (And I presume if you want a job as a “quant.”) This is probably a holdover from the days of the gentleman’s C. RR, JSM; 9/6/25, 1:27 PM
Not Illinois Resident said...: Given that she's a black woman, you'd think she'd be twice as compliant with rules, regulations, and statutes governing her daily life. Simultaneously owning three individual "primary-residence" homes, staging near simultaneous purchase closings to evade regulatory record-checks, and refusing to defend your fraudulent actions, these are not reflective of upstanding citizenship, nor ethical behavior anticipated from her high-level financial regulatory role. She deserves prosecution for fraud. Actual fraud, rote twice within one week of frantic home purchases.; 9/6/25, 2:14 PM
Original Mike said...: "A female black student spoke of her anger at the school for admitting her as a prospective physics major without providing academic support. Her high school didn't offer any AP classes, so the highest math she took was algebra."

Speaking as a physics major (sorry, I couldn't resist) I am taken aback at such an attitude. I had no doubt who was responsible for my preparation: me. She thinks it's someone else's.

I also entered college without calculus. I addressed that by attending summer school classes.; 9/6/25, 2:17 PM
Not Illinois Resident said...: We've a city council member who likes to reference his MBA degree "from a Boston university" and his employer as "Federal Reserve". He always fails to clarify that his Fed Reserve job is IT not finance, and his MBA is from a mail-order 5th-tier diploma mill with a Boston address. He allows people to assume his degree is from a legit university, possibly Harvard or MIT, because he uses big words to describe administrative tasks. And he has little knowledge about finance, but then none of our council members do.; 9/6/25, 2:19 PM
Original Mike said...: How have we gotten to the point in America that someone with 3 houses can claim to be victimized by society and not be laughed off the stage?; 9/6/25, 2:20 PM
n.n said...: someone with 3 houses can claim to be victimized by society and not be laughed off the stage

Critical Race Theory informs us that is not funny and the river of laughter streams from privilege.; 9/6/25, 2:49 PM
n.n said...: Speaking as someone evolved from a mother and father, in modern families a womb farmed and sperm donated, respectively, I am appalled at the colored innuendo and published euphemism in semantic play with urbane dictation.; 9/6/25, 2:53 PM
James K said...: " in 2024 that only four Black women graduated with doctoral degrees in economics among 1,385 graduates"

The most likely explanation for this is that only four (or very few more than that) applied. At the very least, this report should have that information before jumping to the conclusion of discrimination. I would wager that black female applicants had an above average acceptance rate.; 9/6/25, 3:08 PM
Iman said...: “Always read the previous comments before posting your own.”

Sorry, Herr Weevil… I usually scroll by yours, so that’s no help.; 9/6/25, 3:21 PM
Jim at said...: As a Black woman ...

Stopped reading right there.

If you have to label yourself - no matter what color or gender you are - I'm not interested.

You're only doing it to establish hierarchy amongst those who pray at the Altar of Victims. Fuck off.; 9/6/25, 3:27 PM
Dr Weevil said...: "Herr Weevil"? Care to explain the German honorific?; 9/6/25, 3:28 PM
Jim at said...: If this is such a heinous charge, shouldn't they be removing everyone who did this? Or just the black lady who did it?

It's funny when someone tries to play the race card and actually exposes himself in the process.; 9/6/25, 3:38 PM
Original Mike said...: "The most likely explanation for this is that only four (or very few more than that) applied."

I was on our department's admissions committee. A qualified black applicant was highly desirable. That's just a fact.; 9/6/25, 4:14 PM
n.n said...: What does the black man have to say?; 9/6/25, 4:28 PM
n.n said...: At least she knows what a woman is, probably. Credit where credit is due.; 9/6/25, 4:35 PM
JAORE said...: Standards have to be met.
What obvious racial savagery ya beegoats, you.; 9/6/25, 4:56 PM
Mason G said...: "As a Black woman ..."

When I read that, what I hear is "I know my argument won't stand on its merits so I'm playing the race card."; 9/6/25, 5:39 PM
Jamie said...: I want to read the op-ed she wrote. I want to see the examples. Because... if one example was critique of her grammar...

In the piece, we discussed how the disproportionate harassment and discrimination Black women face in the economics discipline as well as the severe underrepresentation we experience.

HOW these things do WHAT?; 9/6/25, 6:18 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: This is DEI in its purest form: a black woman, who holds her job only because she is a black woman, complains of racism and sexism.; 9/6/25, 7:09 PM
Iman said...: “What does the black man have to say?”

As I understand it, he is very careful about what he has to say, because…
ain’t nobody got time for that!; 9/6/25, 7:20 PM
Craig Mc said...: Short version: "Mortgage fraud is OK if you're black."; 9/6/25, 7:49 PM
Bruce Hayden said...: It’s all irrelevant. When the dust clears, she is going to sty fired, regardless of her race. There is a prima facie case of mortgage loan fraud against her, that she hasn’t attempted to refute, except by placing the race card. The law says that the President can fire Fed Governors “for cause”. Her firing was “for cause” because she was a Principal Officer who has been shown to have engaged in financial fraud against one or more banks, which she helps regulate.

The standard of review here is deference to the Executive for making these types of decisions. The burden of proof required to overcome this is significant - in this case that her firing was racially motivated. I don’t think that is going to happen, given the prima facie case of mortgage loan fraud.; 9/6/25, 8:02 PM