Wall Street Gets Reprieve From Fed Crackdown as Raskin Bows Out
- Progressives had expected her to usher in tougher oversight
- Fed vice chair post could remain vacant as elections approach
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Wall Street is getting a major reprieve from tougher oversight after President Joe Biden’s pick to be the top U.S. banking regulator ran aground.
Progressives had pinned their hopes on Sarah Bloom Raskin -- a Duke University law professor and Washington insider who previously held high-level jobs at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve -- to help bring about an era of much tougher oversight for the nation’s largest lenders. Those plans, and expectations for the Fed to play a bigger role in combating climate change, are now in disarray after Raskin failed to win enough support in the Senate.