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Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1875) is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021. She previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She is the first woman to hold either post, and has also led the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters pertaining to economic and fiscal policy. The secretary is, by custom, a member of the president's cabinet and, by law, a member of the National Security Council, [4] and high in the U.S. presidential line of succession.
Janet Yellen, the incumbent Treasury Secretary, is the highest ranking Jewish woman to hold a cabinet post. Two Jewish cabinet secretaries were immigrants to the United States: Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford , and W. Michael Blumenthal , Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter .
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, asking for suspicious activity reports about the Democratic political action committee ActBlue.
Yellen was responding to a question from Rep. Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the committee, about efforts US officials took to “save this country from experiencing a bank run that could have ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen went to Philadelphia on Tuesday to showcase a new free tax filing system with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democratic vice presidential contender.
In 1978, Akerlof married Janet Yellen, an economist who is the current United States Secretary of the Treasury and former chair of the Federal Reserve, as well as a professor emeritus at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. [20] [21] [22] They have one child, a son named Robert, who was born in 1981. [6]
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will promote the new investments on Monday during a visit to Minneapolis. ... Yellen says the Democratic administration is “pursuing a broad affordability agenda ...