In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doi…

- Janet Yellen

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

- Janet Yellen

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans hav…

- Janet Yellen

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

- Janet Yellen

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

- Janet Yellen

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living sta…

- Janet Yellen

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

- Janet Yellen

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

- Janet Yellen

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system…

- Janet Yellen