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Janet Yellen: “Winning the economic competition with China requires us to make transformative investments at home.”

On the recordJanuary 18, 2021
Winning the economic competition with China requires us to make transformative investments at home.
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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

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Yellen calls for significant domestic investment to compete with China.

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