The Federal Reserve announced Tuesday morning the biggest one-day reduction of interest rates on record, by three-quarters of a percentage point to 3.5 percent. I read the news with great interest, having just digested a lengthy article on Ben Bernanke, the chair of the Fed as of 2005, in the Sunday NYT. I learned three [...]
Yvonne Yen Liu is a nerd for the racial justice movement. She lives in Oakland, California. You can write to her at