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November 30, 2020 Joe Biden formalizes the appointment of former Federal Reserve chairman

to head the US Treasury.

For the first time, the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury will be an African American: it is

, currently president of the Obama Foundation in Chicago. 

As expected

,

, who will head the White House's Office for Management and Budget, and Princeton University Economist

, who will lead the House's Board of Economic Advisers,

were then appointed.

Bianca. 

also join the latter

, former Biden campaign chief economist, and economist

, active on the front of economic inequalities.