Austin Goolsbee is the president of the Chicago Fed.
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Bulwark TakesAug 21, 2026
The sources consistently establish that Austan Goolsbee has been president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago since January 9, 2023, and remained in that role in sources dated through late 2026, so the claim was true on 2026-08-21.
This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.
What was said
… So, yeah, the short term and the long term can converge. Yeah, I think what's interesting here, it reminds me of something that Austin Goolsbee, who's now the president of the Chicago Fed, who was a long time professor, economics professor, at the University of Chicago, what he once said to me, and I refer to as the Goolsbee rule: that when you lose credibility, the things you say start to mean the opposite of what you intend them to mean, …
Bulwark Takes · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's official page states Austan D. Goolsbee took office on January 9, 2023, as the 10th president and CEO of the Chicago Fed.[2]
Supports. Wikipedia and the Chicago Fed's own biography list him as the incumbent president, with the Chicago Fed biography dated 2026-10-31 still describing him as president and CEO.[3][4]
Supports. Reuters reporting from September 2026 identifies him as Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee, and Fortune's September 2, 2026 profile calls him president and CEO of the Chicago Fed.[1][5]
Context. The NBER announcement from December 2022 confirms he was named the next president of the Chicago Fed, effective January 2023.[6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1Fed's Goolsbee says strong demand may be adding to US inflationreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Federal Reserve Bank of Chicagofederalreserve.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Austan Goolsbeechicagofed.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Austan Goolsbee - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Chicago Fed’s Austan Goolsbee wants to get back to ‘old-school’ economics: Focused on ordinary Americans, mindful of AI hype, and sharp on inflation | Fortunefortune.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Goolsbee Named President of the Chicago Fednber.org · not rated · cited for: context
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