Janet Yellen Quotes
We are focused on Main Street, on supporting economic conditions - plentiful jobs and stable prices - that help all Americans.
Yellen, Janet L. Transcript of Chair Yellen's Press Conference. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 17 Sept. 2015.
The big priorities will focus on the security and economic side because they really go hand in hand.
This quotation Illustrates a conflation of American national security and economics.
At the time, the economy was virtually controlled by the banks and others in the finance, as opposed to businesses that produced things or provided non-financial services to consumers and business which was that had prevailed ever since the Great Depression, when New Deal legislation controlled the banks, stock markets, and other facets of the financial industry.
Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist, civil servant and policymaker serving as the United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She is the first woman to hold either role. She is also a professor emerita at Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and formerly a distinguished fellow in residence at the Brookings Institution.