Economic Quote by Janet Yellen

“We are focused on Main Street, on supporting economic conditions - plentiful jobs and stable prices - that help all Americans.”

Janet Yellen

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Economic Economics Focused Help Main street Prices Street

More by Janet Yellen

Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014.

Janet Yellen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street.

Janet Yellen

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

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

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

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

Image

Explore all 148 Janet Yellen quotes

More Economic quotes

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

Lee R. Raymond

Image

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,…

Christopher Bond

Image

I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our…

Brian Reade

Image

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,…

Carl Schmitt

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic…

Sheila Kamerman

Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted,…

Lawrence Summers

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is…

Roland Merullo

Image

Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,…

Bell Hooks