President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening. The Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies experts will host a preview discussion ahead of the speech on Monday.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will be interviewed by Carlyle Group co-Executive Chairman David Rubenstein at the The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr will give keynote remarks at the Banking on Financial Inclusion Hope Economic Mobility Forum on Tuesday.
Jared Bernstein, a member of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, will discuss the U.S. economy at a Brookings Institution and Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy event on Wednesday.
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu will give opening remarks at the agency’s Bank Merger Symposium on Friday.
New York Fed President John Williams and Binance.US CFO Jasmine Lee are among the speakers at the Wall Street Journal CFO Network Summit on Wednesday.
More Fedspeak:
Fed Governor Lisa Cook speaks at a Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies event on Wednesday.
Fed Governor Christopher Waller and Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker will speak on digital assets Friday at an event on “Digital Money, Decentralized Finance, and the Puzzle of Crypto.”
Waller also speaks at the 2023 Arkansas State University Agribusiness Conference on Wednesday.
Hearings of note:
The House Financial Services Committee will discuss “Revamping and Revitalizing Banking in the 21st Century” in a Wednesday hearing. The capital markets subcommittee will also hold hearings Wednesday on “Empowering Entrepreneurs: Removing Barriers to Capital Access for Small Businesses” and “Sophistication or Discrimination? How the Accredited Investor Definition Unfairly Limits Investment Access for the Non-wealthy and the Need for Reform.”
The House Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs will hold a hearing titled “The State of Housing 2023” on Thursday.
The House Ways and Means Committee will hold an oversight hearing on unemployment fraud on Wednesday.
Worth watching:
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will hold a webinar on Tuesday to discuss findings from its 2021 National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households, among other topics.
The Bipartisan Policy Center will host a discussion Tuesday on housing policy, titled “Homelessness as a Housing Supply Problem.”