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...Likewise, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen is out in the heartland talking up Bidenomics. Labour is starting to speak out in favour of Biden....
...Carter has been wronged by history Conventional wisdom insists that former US president Jimmy Carter played Chamberlain to Ronald Reagan’s Churchill....
...He’s not Carter cheerfully embracing post-presidency house chores....
...Jimmy Carter When Jimmy Carter entered the Oval Office in 1977, Arthur Burns was Fed chair and facing growing criticism for his handling of inflation since his first appointment by Richard Nixon....
...Janet Yellen is arguably the most qualified person to be made US Treasury Secretary, having run the US Federal Reserve and Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors....
...MW: Let’s suppose I were [Treasury secretary] Janet Yellen. Her argument might be that this stimulus might create some excesses in the short-run. But that will be a temporary shock....
...“He’s always been concerned with financial stability, he thought it was a top priority,” Janet Yellen, who served as Fed chair from 2014 until 2018, told the Financial Times....
...It turns out that her old friend Linda (Janet Moran), an estate agent, is Eddie’s wife. Another old friend Dairne (Rebecca Root), who has undergone a sex change, looks on in horror....
...But Janet Yellen is unlikely to want to create much in the way of drama, and in any case this is her swan song. This will be her last conference as Fed chairwoman....
...Donald Trump, who inveighed against the Fed in general and its chair Janet Yellen in particular during the election campaign, has since appeared to swing back and forth on whether he approves of her performance...
...The previous non-economist in the job was G William Miller, appointed by the president Jimmy Carter in 1978....
...I would support reappointing Janet Yellen, and it would be in President Trump’s best interests to do so.”...
...Moreover, as Janet Yellen noted in her press conference on June 14, inflation has been below the Fed’s objective for “roughly five years”....
...“I have nothing against Janet Yellen whatsoever; I think she has been doing her job,” he said....
...After that, at this point, we seem to be positioned for roughly equal chances of zero, one or two hikes between then and the end of the year: Whatever Janet Yellen, who we should still expect to be in charge...
...Steven Carter, Mouterre-sur-Blourde, France Any openings at the FT for a burnt-out teacher?...
...Expect Mark Carney and Janet Yellen to do ever less this year, keeping interest rates benign and yield curves happy. Stocks should rejoice....
...During the campaign he advocated for low rates but then excoriated Janet Yellen, the Fed chair, for being “highly political” by keeping policy too loose....
...Janet Yellen has the biggest economic pulpit in the world. She should spell out the hidden costs of America’s tendency to criminalise, writes Ed Luce....
...Maybe the data points are getting better for the consumer in the US,” said Carter Braxton Worth, a strategist with Sterne Agee....
...She becomes the first Democrat to run the Fed since Jimmy Carter appointed Paul Volcker in 1979....
...William Miller was appointed by Jimmy Carter to succeed Burns. In his brief tenure, he introduced greater discipline into day-to-day operations....
...I have no inside knowledge on whether Janet Yellen or Larry Summers is most likely to be given the job as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve....
...The two candidates in the American Presidential election are ideologically as far apart as any I can remember since Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter in 1980....
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