It's important for market participants to have a sense of how we think about the economy and the appropriate path of policy,… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect one, of the degree of labor market slack. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
American workers have faced serious difficulties in the labor market since the first oil shock in 1973. Since that time, the pace… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Starting in late 2007, faced with acute financial market distress, the Federal Reserve created programs to keep credit flowing to households and… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Private sector labor market flows provide additional indications of the strength of the labor market. For example, the quits rate has tended… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
A pickup in demand in many advanced economies and a stabilization in commodity prices should, in turn, boost the growth prospects of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Many financial innovations such as the increased availability of low-cost mutual funds have improved opportunities for households to participate in asset markets… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The Fed should not be responding to the ups and downs of the markets, and it is certainly not our policy to… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
A higher IOER rate encourages banks to raise the interest rates they charge, putting upward pressure on market interest rates regardless of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Financial market participants appear to recognize the FOMC's data-dependent approach because incoming data surprises typically induce changes in market expectations about the… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to promote capital investment, both public and private, could all… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms - manufacturing firms… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
It's important for market participants to have a sense of how we think about the economy and the appropriate path of policy, to look… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
If there is a job that you feel passionate about, do what you can to pursue that job; if there is a purpose about… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and it was… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Increased business sales would almost certainly raise the productive capacity of the economy by encouraging additional capital spending, especially if accompanied by reduced uncertainty… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
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