The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
We need to keep in mind the well-established fact that the full effects of monetary policy are felt only after long lags.… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because monetary policy will need to… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I will be the first to say that it is always difficult to get monetary policy just right. But the Fed's analytical… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Transparency concerning the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy is desirable because better public understanding enhances the effectiveness of policy. More important,… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Monetary policy ultimately must be conducted in a pragmatic manner that relies not on any particular indicator or model but, instead, reflects… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objective is to foster maximum employment and price stability. In this regard, a key challenge is to… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Stronger productivity growth would tend to raise the average level of interest rates and, therefore, would provide the Federal Reserve with greater… — 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
