NBC Southern California Article RatingBiden to Nominate Michael Barr as Fed Bank Regulator in Second Attempt to Fill Post
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-12% Somewhat Liberal
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "Barr is the current dean of the University of Michigan's public policy school, a post he accepted following his work for the Obama administration." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "During the Clinton administration, he served as special assistant to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury and as special advisor to President Bill Clinton." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "He understands that this job is not a partisan one, but one that plays a critical role in regulating our nation's financial institutions to ensure Americans are treated fairly and to protect the stability of our economy, Biden added." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Sarah Bloom Raskin, Biden's first pick to be the Fed's bank regulator, withdrew her candidacy last month." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Moderate Democrats like Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, are considered more reliable support for the veteran of the Obama and Clinton administrations." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Moderate Democrats like Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, are considered more reliable support for the veteran of the Obama and Clinton administrations." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Still, those familiar with the White House's thinking say the president's advisors believe they can convince the likes of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who previously applauded Barr's work in writing Dodd-Frank and establishing the CFPB." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "President Joe Biden will nominate Michael Barr, a former Treasury Department official, to be the Federal Reserve's top regulator in charge of big banks." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Barr served as assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions during the Obama administration, where he helped design the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Barr himself had last year been considered as Biden's pick to run the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Biden's first pick to serve as the Fed's banks regulator, Sarah Bloom Raskin, withdrew her candidacy last month after opposition from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Barr is the current dean of the University of Michigan's public policy school, a post he accepted following his work for the Obama administration." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "He was instrumental in the passage of Dodd-Frank, to ensure a future financial crisis would not create devastating economic hardship for working families, Biden said in a statement Friday morning accompanying the formal White House aouncement." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "They will try to maintain strong labor markets while bringing inflation down, Yellen said of the Fed on Wednesday." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Economists, including Treasury Secretary and former Fed Chair Janet Yellen, say the Fed will have to be careful not to pull back on its easy-money policies too quickly, or else risk U.S. GDP growth in the face of ongoing supply-chain constraints and the Russia-Ukraine war in Europe." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The White House later chose Saule Omarova to replace Barr as its nominee to lead the OCC until she was forced to withdraw in November as a result of skepticism from moderate Democrats Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "The White House later chose Saule Omarova to replace Barr as its nominee to lead the OCC until she was forced to withdraw in November as a result of skepticism from moderate Democrats Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
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47% : Barr is the current dean of the University of Michigan's public policy school, a post he accepted following his work for the Obama administration.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.