
Under his leadership the agency took an aggressive stance going after abusive mortgage and payday lenders, earning praise from progressives and criticism from Republicans who said he was overstepping the agency's statutory remit.Īfter leaving the agency, Cordray ran unsuccessfully for Ohio governor. She also spent time as the top financial regulator for Maryland before joining the Fed.Ī former Ohio attorney general, Cordray served as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2012 to 2017. SARAH BLOOM RASKIN, FORMER OBAMA OFFICIALĪ former Fed governor and Treasury official, Raskin is supported by progressives but could also get enough Senate votes to secure the position, said Jaret Seiberg, an analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group.Īs a Fed governor from 2010 to 2014, Raskin slammed proprietary trading as of “low or no real economic value” and pushed for a strict interpretation of the “Volcker Rule,” a major post-crisis reform curbing such speculative investments.įormer President Barack Obama later tapped Raskin to serve as deputy Treasury secretary. Here are the leading names in the mix, according to multiple analysts and Washington insiders. Progressives are pushing for a candidate who would take a tougher stance on Wall Street, although it is unclear if they will get their way. However, she is stepping into the Fed Vice Chair role that focuses on economic and monetary policy. Biden said that and other Fed picks would be announced in early December.Īnalysts and Washington insiders had seen fellow Fed governor Lael Brainard as the leading candidate to replace Quarles because she opposed his agenda to revisit rules created following the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. Republican appointee Randal Quarles in October stepped down from that powerful role overseeing the country's largest lenders, and is due to leave the central bank by year end. Raskin’s first novel, I Hate Everyone But You (co-written by Gaby Dunn), was published September 5, 2017. Please Send Help was published on July 16, 2019.Speculation over who will get the role is once again ramping up, after the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported that the White House was considering Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former Fed governor and former Treasury Department official, for the position. This 12-episode scripted podcast chronicles three female friends who meet weekly to share gossip about their suburban town. The podcast ran from June 2018 through August 2018. Raskin, with the help of Stitcher created Gossip. They play their own sketches and talk about topics like mental health, friendships and relationships on their YouTube channel, “Just Between Us.” In March 2019, they started the podcast with the same name, where guests answer questions and discuss topics. The podcast also includes the section “Hypotheticals,” where Raskin and guests ask Dunn questions like “Would this cheater let you stay?” In 2014, Raskin and Dunn created the YouTube channel “Just Between Us”. They are a self-described odd couple. Raskin was a BuzzFeed writer where she was featured in many videos both by herself and together with Dunn. She and Dunn left BuzzFeed in 2015 to join the JBU YouTube channel. They also cited the problems they had working with Buzzfeed who wanted to keep their JBU time limited. It was their most difficult decision.

She continued to suffer from anxiety and depression. After taking medication up to the age of 21, she took a seven year break that included therapy. She stopped taking medication at 28 and was confronted with backlash over weight gain. Raskin is open about her mental health struggles. At the age of four, she was diagnosed as having obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). She graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She began a Pepperdine University clinical psychology program in 2020 with a focus on Marriage and Family Therapy. Raskin was born in Manhattan, New York on Jto a Jewish family. It reached the top ten of The New York Times bestsellers list. Raskin has previously written for Elle and NBC News Think. She and Dunn published a joint novel entitled I Hate Everybody but You on September 5, 2017.

She is an American comedian, writer, director, comedian and YouTuber. Prior to joining BuzzFeed Video as a writer, she left with her friend Gaby Dunn in 2015 to work on their comedy YouTube channel “Just Between Us.” Allison Beth Raskin was born June 20, 1989.
