Lael Brainard is director of the U.S. National Economic Council. She was appointed by President Joe Biden to the position in ...

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said Monday she was encouraged by last week’s U.S. inflation data and noted the Fed would likely soon reduce the size of its rate hikes. “The inflation ...

Lael Brainard, the former vice chair of the Federal Reserve and current director of the National Economic Council, spoke at a ...

Lael Brainard, director of President Joe Biden’s National Economic Council, speaks earlier this month at the White House. (Getty Images) With Election Day less than a week away, a top economic ...

In her recent speech, she talked about interest rate caps, yield curve control and untested policy decisions to force inflation higher. In a speech at the 2020 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum recently ...

Prior to her appointment to vice chair, Brainard had served on the Fed's board of governors since 2014. As one of seven governors, Brainard was often the lone dissenting vote on motions to roll ...