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Who is Janet Yellen, the first woman to lead the American economy?

2020-11-25T10:37:07.552Z


PORTRAIT - Joe Biden to hand over the Treasury to the former Fed boss under Obama. The first female finance minister in the United States, Janet Yellen, married to a Nobel Prize winner, is a Democrat respected by Republicans and the markets.


It is easily recognized in the photos.

White hair cut to the square, piercing eye and round face, Janet Yellen, who measures 1m60, seems rather short next to other VIPs in finance and the economy.

This is even the reason why Donald Trump would have refused to extend his mandate at the head of the Fed in 2018, reports the

Washington Post!

This high-level economist, appointed in 2014 by Barack Obama at the head of the bank which guides the monetary policy of the United States and sets the tempo for the rest of the world economy, however impressed Donald Trump, who had hesitated to renew.

Read also: Janet Yellen, Trump's pet peeve who became the great money maker of the United States

According to the American media, Joe Biden is preparing to give again immense power to Janet Yellen by appointing her Secretary of the Treasury, the American equivalent of the post of Minister of Economy and Finance.

With a particularly heavy task in these times of crisis due to Covid-19.

The US GDP will have plunged by at least 3.5% in 2020 and unemployment will still be very high in January,

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Source: lefigaro

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