But now that is moot as President Trump has fired her, effective immediately:
" I have determined that there is sufficient cause to remove you from your position...
...
The Federal Reserve has tremendous responsibility for setting interest rates and regulating reserve and member banks. The American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve.
In light of your deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter, they cannot and I do not have such confidence in your integrity.
At a minimum, the conduct at issue exhibits the sort of gross negligence in financial transactions that calls into question your competence and trustworthiness as a financial regulator."
Full letter below:
Trump will now have a majority on the Fed Board...
Trump was quick to make note of her dismissal on Truth Social:
Reminder, The Fed is not political... etc, etc...
There is a silver lining for her...
How long before Democrats decry this racist act and demand it be appealed all the way to SCOTUS?
In the Hamptons, medicine has become a luxury amenity as essential as a private chef or yacht crew — with billionaires and celebrities paying up to six figures a year for concierge doctors who deliver everything from Botox on boats to discreet emergency care at all-night parties.
Physicians like Alexander Golberg — nicknamed “Dr. Hamptons” — told the Wall Street Journal that they have built booming practices on this mix of secrecy and luxury, charging as much as $1,000 per house call.
Golberg and his son Mark race to East End estates in a black Range Rover, carrying injectables and emergency gear packed in a Louis Vuitton doctor’s bag and chilled in a caviar cooler.
Dr. Alexander Golberg — known as “Dr. Hamptons” — provides concierge medical services to East End residents.drgolberg.nyc
“We are the hospital on wheels,” Dr. Asma Rashid of Hamptons Boutique Medicine, who admitted her staff is often summoned as the “cleanup crew” after White Parties and late-night galas, told the Journal.
“We’ve gone on yachts and helped crew out and the partygoers out. We’ve sutured on site, at Meadow Lane and Dune Road mansions.”
Privacy is paramount. Pro athletes quietly seek stem-cell injections to hide injuries from coaches, while socialites call for cosmetic touch-ups hours before black-tie events.
“We are the hospital on wheels,” said Dr. Asma Rashid, whose team is often called the “cleanup crew” after Hamptons galas and White Parties.LinkedIn
Rashid told the Journal that her patients view access to concierge medicine as essential, saying: “Money is not an obstacle.”
The model took off during the pandemic, when Manhattan’s elite decamped to the East End and demanded round-the-clock testing and treatment for the coronavirus.
Hamptons residents often call up doctors to give Botox injections aboard yachts — ensuring secrecy and privacy.Valua Vitaly – stock.adobe.com
Now, the services are permanent fixtures. Nationwide chain Sollis Health opened in Water Mill in 2021, joining Casa Health, White Glove Medicine and independents like Golberg and Rashid, who compete to provide 24/7 care for clients who want hospital-level service without ever leaving their estates.
Golberg’s most requested procedure is pure Hamptons theater: Botox on yachts, or “Boat-tox,” as his son calls it.
Concierge doctors in the Hamptons are summoned to mansions and yachts with Botox needles, IV bags and even sutures when parties spiral out of control.Jacob Lund – stock.adobe.com
Partygoers sometimes treat last-minute injections as urgent as medical emergencies. Mark also markets the “Doctor G lift,” a nonsurgical facelift, alongside cosmetic nose and butt lifts. Energy-boosting NAD injections have become another hot seller.
But behind the glamor lurks danger. With cocaine common at Hamptons parties — and rising fears of laced supplies — doctors are often called to handle overdoses or drug-related collapses quietly.
“These are not clean drugs and that’s very, very risky,” Rashid warned.
For high-profile clients, discretion is survival. A publicized drug scare could sink reputations, and for athletes, contracts worth millions. That secrecy keeps demand high.
Mark Golberg handles the business end of his father’s concierge practice.LinkedIn
“We’re in their homes and very friendly with the whole crew,” Rashid said.
“So we become part of their team that’s taking care of the high profiles here in the Hamptons.”
Golberg’s own story is nearly as colorful as his practice. After emigrating from Russia in 1989, he worked in his cousin-in-law’s cubic zirconia business before building a career in medicine.
Now board-certified in family, osteopathic, anti-aging and regenerative medicine, he credits the TV show “Royal Pains” — about a doctor catering to the Hamptons elite — as inspiration for his career.
For athletes and celebrities alike, concierge medicine offers not just treatment — but the secrecy to protect reputations and multimillion-dollar contracts.littleny – stock.adobe.com
Today, he and his son tag-team calls day and night, marketing themselves as the real-life version.
Sometimes they decline requests — such as Ozempic patients who just want their weekly injections handled.
Rashid told the Journal that summer makes patients even more dependent on concierge medicine.
“It’s about being up to speed with the events, the galas, the social life, and just making sure that when they’re exercising, they’re hydrated, that they have enough electrolytes and vitamins,” Rashid said.
The Trump administration is free to eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of research funding on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) following last week’s ruling by the United States Supreme Court.
In a 5-4 vote, the justices lifted an order from a federal court judge in Boston that blocked $783 million in cuts made by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on health research grants that were being used to advance DEI efforts as well as “gender ideology extremism.”
BREAKING: In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court allows Trump to cut $783 million in DEI research funding
The Supreme Court was split on the 5-4 decision which marks another win for President Trump and clears the way for his administration to move forward with canceling hundreds of grants after U.S. District Judge William Young ordered the health-related grants restored in June.
Chief Justice John Roberts was among the dissenters in the high court’s decision and Justice Amy Coney Barrett voted with conservative majority to let the administration stop the grant funding.
Roberts and Barrett did land on the side of the dissent and allowed to stand a portion of the lower judge’s order that voided a number of NIH policies that targeted DEI programs at the direction of the White House.
The order from Young was handed down in June after grant recipients and 16 Democrat-led states filed lawsuits challenging cuts to programs at their state universities.
The plaintiffs had argued that stopping funding for the grants would disrupt the work of scientists by halting research and ruining data already collected.
Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch accused Young of defying the Supreme Court by not abiding by an emergency ruling it issued in April.
In that decision, Gorsuch wrote, “All these interventions should have been unnecessary,” adding, “When this Court issues a decision, it constitutes a precedent that commands respect in lower courts.”
According to Politico, this latest Supreme Court ruling is not the final decision on the legality of the grant terminations but the Trump administration will be able to continue withholding funding while the legal fight plays out.
Kraft, Mondelez, Coca-Cola and several other major food companies on Monday succeeded in winning the dismissal of a lawsuit that accused them of designing harmful "ultra-processed" foods addictive to children.
U.S. District Judge Mia Perez in Philadelphia granted the companies’ motion to dismiss after finding that the plaintiff in the case, 19-year-old Bryce Martinez, failed to connect specific food products to his Type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Martinez, a Philadelphia resident, said he was diagnosed with the illnesses at age 16 after consuming the companies’ products.
The lawsuit was seen as a test case because it accused the companies of using the same strategies the tobacco industry once did in knowingly addicting Americans to popular food products despite their health risks.
While the definition of ultra-processed foods is under debate, researchers have considered it to apply to many packaged snack foods, sweets and soft drinks made with substances extracted from whole foods or synthesized artificially.
Perez said that the lawsuit listed more than 100 food brands but Martinez failed to name any specific products as causes of his illnesses.
Representatives for Kraft Mac & Cheese and Heinz ketchup maker Kraft Heinz, Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers baker Mondelez and soft drink company Coca-Cola did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
General Counsel Stacy Papadopoulos of the Consumer Brands Association, an industry group representing food and beverage makers, said in a statement the lawsuit should never have been filed.
"Classifying foods as unhealthy simply because they are processed misleads consumers and exacerbates health disparities," she said.
Mike Morgan, an attorney for Martinez, said in a statement that they were evaluating options for next steps in the case.
“The scientific evidence demonstrating the addictive nature of these products is compelling, and we remain confident in the merits of our case,” Morgan said.
Ultra-processed foods have come under more scrutiny during the second Trump administration. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in May that the "central focus" of the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration will be on studying ultra-processed foods, sugars and food additives.
The Utah Office of Energy Development, TerraPower and land development firm Flagship Companies signed an agreement on Monday to explore sites for a nuclear reactor project and an energy storage plant amid soaring demand for power.
The parties said they expect to make recommendations for a site by the end of the year.
U.S. nuclear power is experiencing a renaissance after decades of stagnation, driven by record demand from data centers used for artificial intelligence technologies and the electrification of industries such as transportation and manufacturing.
The agreement also supports Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox's Operation Gigawatt, a strategic effort to build an energy ecosystem that serves Utah and the Western U.S., the companies said in a statement.
President Donald Trump signed executive orders in late May, directing the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to cut down on regulations and fast-track new licenses for reactors and power plants.
In June, TerraPower had raised $650 million in a funding round that included founder Bill Gates and the venture capital arm of chipmaker Nvidia, and said it expects to get regulatory approval for its $4 billion nuclear reactor next year.
The company's $4-billion Natrium nuclear reactor is located in Wyoming on the site of an old coal plant.
Bellevue, Washington-based TerraPower has been developing an advanced nuclear reactor that uses liquid sodium as a coolant instead of water.
The Natrium reactor has the added benefit of using significantly less water than the current light water reactor fleet and small modular reactor designs, making it well suited for water-constrained regions, the company said in statement.
The bigger scam being, of course, how the left (and lots of plain-old Dem machines) feeds off government-funded “charities.”
It’s a huge part of the “swamp,” though of course its denizens pretend their motives don’t reek.
In this case, the Bidenites were in too much of a hurry to make the theft fully legal: After President Donald Trump’s victory last November, high-level staff all across the executive branch rushed to corral cash that hadn’t yet gone out the door, lest the MAGA crew actually vet where it was going.
So some plugged-in Dems quickly created Natcast, a public-private not-for-profit — which the Bidenites immediately chose to direct tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to tech firms under the CHIPS Act.
Except that law never allowed for such a cut-out to handle the outlays — which made the diversion plainly illegal: Even if nobody ever goes to jail for it, Lutnick can at least claw back the funds.
That was just part of the looting frenzy; another schemeparked $20 billion at CitiBankwith an eye on ensuring the “environmental justice” grants went to Democratic allies, such as onelinked to Stacey Abrams, the failed Georgia gov candidate and election-denier.
EPA chief Lee Zeldin moved to rescind that insider dealing after getting wind of Bidenites at his agency “throwing gold bars” away before the Trumpies could take over.
Notably, the $2 billion Abrams-linked grant was destined for Rewiring America, which is tied — via a network of interlocking shell nonprofits — to Arabella Advisors, the billion-dollar Democratic dark-money network founded and run by a former Clinton staffer.
All this cash was appropriated in thename of noble causes (protecting America’s high-tech edge; fighting climate change, etc.), but it enriches an awful lot of middle men on the way to (maybe) doing actual good.
In New York, such arrangements feed much of the dominant Democratic (and further left) political ecosystem: tens of billions in taxpayer funds directed to tax-exempt charities that theoretically stay away from politics, lobbying or elections.
But nobody polices them, so supposed charities like Legal Aid, Make the Road or the Arab American Association of New York regularly engage in political protests — and provide day jobs for political operatives and future candidates, in alliance with the officials who reward them with funding.
Indeed, you can no longer distinguish the local Democratic Party from the web of nonprofits: They support each other at the expense of the public, even as they posture about keeping “money out of politics.”
It’s great to see Team Trump starting to excise these nonprofit scams that so deeply infect US politics — but the amount of rot to remove is mind-boggling.
