K evin Warsh's financial disclosure forms list assets worth well more than $100 million. The nominee for Federal Reserve chair, nominated by President Donald Trump, must now face the Senate Banking Committee.
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Warsh owns a financial advisory firm, Vicarage LLC, and holds large stakes in several investment funds. He has cited "pre-existing confidentiality" agreements to avoid disclosing the specific values of individual holdings or the names of some of his clients, including a stake in the prediction betting market Polymarket.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Banking Committee, met with Warsh on Thursday. She urged him to disclose more information about his assets than what was provided in the khoảng thể hiện an overall lack of transparency.
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"This is a real problem," Warren said. "No one has gone forward in the Trump administration without disclosing fully their financial holdings."
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Warsh has pledged in ethics filings to sell his holdings and stop working as an adviser if he is confirmed as Fed chair.
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