lacker

/ ˈlækə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of lacquer

Example Sentences

Asked about the Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker's view that the federal funds rate, at 5.0-5.25% now, will have to rise to 6% to tame inflation, Yellen said that was a decision for the Fed.

From Reuters

The federal funds rate — the overnight lending rate controlled by the central bank — is currently 1.5 to 1.75 percent, although it may have to go as high as 6 percent before it can make a dent in inflation, said Jeffrey Lacker, an economics professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and former president of the Richmond Fed.

From Washington Post

In 2017, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker resigned after revealing he’d shared confidential information with a financial analyst five years before.

From Washington Post

Kevin Lacker, a programmer and former Google search quality engineer, illustrated these sorts of errors in GPT-3 in this informative blog post, noting how you can stump the program with common sense questions like “Which is heavier, a toaster or a pencil?”

From The Verge

Yet broader and more historical takes on politics were also abundant, including R. Sikoryak’s “Constitution Illustrated”; “Drawing the Vote,” a guide to voting rights from Tommy Jenkins and Kati Lacker; and from World Citizen Comics the timely “Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Graphic Novel,” which smartly spotlights the living document’s relevance to presidential impeachment, a peaceful transition of White House power and other modern concerns.

From Washington Post