Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor

丽莎·库克,作为第一位担任美联储理事的黑人女性,已经习惯了斗争。她眉毛和腿上的疤痕就是证明。库克说,她在美国佐治亚州的一个小农村长大,在废除种族隔离的早期,当白人学校最终向黑人学生开放时,她曾被一个白人孩子殴打。"我之所以知道这是一起种族歧视事件,是因为那个孩子叫我‘N字',而我以前从未听过这个词,"她在2022年的一次国际货币基金组织播客中说道,并补充说她不得不"回家去问这个词是什么意思"。

Now she is at the centre of a battle that could have sweeping implications for the world's biggest economy. On Monday, Donald Trump moved to fire Cook, accusing her of committing mortgage fraud. But she has refused to go quietly. On Thursday morning she filed a lawsuit against the president's "unprecedented and illegal" attempt to remove her, asking for a judge to rule that Trump's move was unlawful, and that she remains an active member of the Fed's powerful board of governors. It paves the way for a legal showdown that will define how far Trump can take his attack on an institution that has been independent since 1951 and sets interest rates underpinning trillions of dollars in assets worldwide.

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