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Janet Yellen: “I think we were monitoring housing prices very carefully and became concerned certainly by 2005 that there might well be…”

On the recordJuly 14, 2010
I think we were monitoring housing prices very carefully and became concerned certainly by 2005 that there might well be a bubble in the housing market.
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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

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Yellen reflects on monitoring housing prices and concerns about a potential bubble.

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