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Janet Yellen: “So, of course, there are risks to the recovery of tightening too soon, and we have been highly focused on those risks.”

On the recordJuly 15, 2015
So, of course, there are risks to the recovery of tightening too soon, and we have been highly focused on those risks.
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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

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Yellen discusses the risks of tightening monetary policy prematurely.

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