Janet Yellen actually said...

Thank you so much for being willing to consider taking on this role at the Fed and bringing your expertise to bear.

Was there any task more important for the Fed since the 1930s than understanding the financial system?

We have had widening wage inequality and income inequality in this country going back to the mid- to late-1980s, and that continues.

no one who lived through that financial crisis would ever want to risk another one that could subject the economy to what we are painfully g...