Richard Fisher

President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Richard W. Fisher is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. In this role, Fisher serves as a member of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve’s principal monetary policymaking group. He is a former vice chairman of Kissinger McLarty Associates, a strategic advisory firm chaired by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Fisher began his career at the private bank of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. and later became assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury during the Carter administration, working on issues related to the dollar crisis of 1978–79. He returned to Brown Brothers to found their Texas operations in Dallas and, in 1987, created Fisher Capital Management and a separate fund-management firm, Fisher Ewing Partners. From 1997 to 2001, Fisher was the deputy U.S. trade representative with the rank of ambassador.

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Break Up The Big Banks

With Douglas Elliott, Richard Fisher, Simon Johnson, Paul Saltzman
October 16, 2013

To prevent the collapse of the global financial system in 2008, the Treasury committed 245 billion taxpayer dollars to stabilize America’s banking institutions. Today, banks that were once “too big to fail” have only grown bigger, with JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs holding assets equal to over 50% of the U.S. economy. Were size and complexity at the root of the financial crisis, or do calls to break up the big banks ignore real…

Break Up The Big Banks

With Douglas Elliott, Richard Fisher, Simon Johnson, Paul Saltzman
October 16, 2013

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