Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies.
From Janet Yellen
Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.
I am strongly committed to pursuing the dual goals that Congress has assigned us: maximum employment and price stability.
In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.
I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.
Over a long period of time, technological change is something that has been important in reducing manufacturing employment - absolutely and as a share of jobs in the economy.
For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms - manufacturing firms - have found it easier to continue producing by - with - reducing their workforces.
There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had some recovery in manufacturing employment as the economy's recovered.
It's important for market participants to have a sense of how we think about the economy and the appropriate path of policy, to look at incoming data, and to form their own judgments as to whether or not changes in policy would be appropriate.
In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.
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