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hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2014, 03:06 PM Jul 2014

I think I'm in love with Janet Yellen -

According to a recent article in the New Yorker, she and her husband were always worried about losing their jobs at Berkley, so they timed their sabbaticals in government service accordingly.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/21/the-hand-on-the-lever

The Hand on the Lever, Nicholas Lemann, New yorker 07/21/2014

Let me repeat that - we now have a head of the Federal Reserve who worried most of her life about being out of work. She understands! She's one of us.

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