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Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed

By Sally Helm
Published September 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM CDT

What does a member of the Federal Reserve Board actually do? We hear from two past members about the job, and the practices meant to keep decisions apolitical.

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Sally Helm
Sally Helm reports and produces for Planet Money. She has covered wildfire investigation in California, Islamic Finance in Michigan, the mystery of declining productivity growth, and holograms. Helm is a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop and of Yale University. Before coming to work at NPR, she helped start an after-school creative writing program in Sitka, Alaska. She is originally from Los Angeles, California.