This is Planet Money from NPR.
On Monday evening, Brendan Greeley is in his home office in Maryland,
finishing up a book he's been working on forever.
I was sitting right here.
I was sitting in this chair.
This dog was sitting next to me.
I was editing a document that is still open about the creation of euro dollars.
Brendan is getting his PhD at Princeton,
and he has been studying the long, long arc of financial history.
His almost-finished book is a 500-year history of the dollar.
But for 20 years, he was a journalist, a Fed watcher.
He's covered the Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank.
So on Monday, he's working away.
And you opened Blue Sky to procrastinate.
Yes, that's exactly what I did.
I opened Blue Sky to procrastinate.
And that's when you saw it.
And that's when I saw that Donald Trump had declared that he had fired Lisa Cook.
Dr. Lisa Cook is an economist.
She was appointed by President Biden to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.