Quick note before the summer school finale.

As you likely saw, President Trump says he is firing Lisa Cook, a Biden appointee to the Federal Reserve Board.

This is big.

Our short daily show, The Indicator, already has an episode out about it.

We'll have a longer one here soon, so please watch our feed.

Here at Planet Money, we've covered why Federal Reserve Independence is so important for the economy. The Fed's origin

stories when Nixon tried to pressure the Fed. That time, Turkey fired its central bankers. We even

have an episode about Lisa Cook's work long before she was nominated to the Fed.

We put all those shows into a playlist for you.

If you're in the mood to dive deeper, to binge, to share with everyone, you know, check the show notes for a link.

We'll also post it to our socials.

Okay?

Now for summer school.

It's time to graduate. This is Planets. Okay? Now for summer school. It's time to graduate.

This is Planet Money from NPR.

Graduates, faculty,

parents, maybe there's parents here. Longtime listeners listeners a bit confused by the whole fake graduation theme.

Welcome to Planet Money Summer School.

I'm Robert Smith, and this is our live commencement ceremony at the Bell House in Brooklyn.

Thank you. I stand before you today in a dean's robe, green like the Planet Money podcast logo.

It was ordered from China, and like everything else about summer school, it is not recognized by any academic or government institution, yes.

But what it does symbolize is that we have completed a summer's worth of episodes in political economy. And in these days of short attention spans, that unfortunately earns you a degree.

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