No imminent US sanctions on Chinese banks for their trade with Russia: Janet Yellen But American treasury secretary says the policy option is something Washington ‘would be prepared to use if necessary’. 04/25/2024 - 3:21 pm | View Link
Yellen says U.S. economy not likely weakening, all options open on China's overcapacity By Alessandra Galloni, David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Reuters on Thursday that U.S. economic growth was likely stronger than suggested by weaker-than-expected data on first-quarter output and said the Biden administration was keeping all options open to respond to threats from China's excess industrial capacity. 04/25/2024 - 7:25 am | View Link
Senate Confirms Janet L. Yellen as Treasury Secretary Jan. 25, 2021. WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Janet L. Yellen, a labor economist and former Federal Reserve chair, to be Treasury secretary on Monday, putting in place a key lieutenant to ... 04/18/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
Janet L. Yellen Sworn In As 78th Secretary of the United States ... January 26, 2021. WASHINGTON – Earlier today, Vice President Kamala D. Harris administered the oath of office to Janet L. Yellen. Secretary Yellen is the first woman to lead the U.S. Department of the Treasury in its 231-year history, and the first person to have served as Treasury Secretary, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and ... 04/18/2024 - 2:05 pm | View Link
Janet Yellen Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021. She previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. 04/17/2024 - 7:43 pm | View Link
Janet Yellen | U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary of the Treasury. On January 26, 2021, Janet Yellen was sworn in as the 78th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. An economist by training, she took office after almost fifty years in academia and public service. 04/17/2024 - 3:03 pm | View Link
Janet Yellen confirmed as first female treasury secretary in U.S. history Jan. 25, 2021, 3:28 PM PST. By Martha C. White. Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was confirmed as treasury secretary Monday, with the Senate voting 84-15 to make her the first woman to ... 04/17/2024 - 3:15 am | View Link
I became reacquainted with Raffi in the spring of 2020, around my son’s first birthday. These were the early days of the pandemic: People had barely stopped hoarding toilet paper; we’d started going to the car wash for fun. It was on one of these drives that I first burst into tears to Raffi’s “All I Really Need.” Ostensibly, I was playing the track for my baby, who was babbling in his car seat behind me as I drove through eerily quiet San Francisco, trying to forget Trump had just suggested we all drink bleach.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2 percent tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise about $313 billion a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality, and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested.
In a sign of growing international support for a levy on the super-rich, Brazil, Germany, South Africa, and Spain say a 2 percent tax would reduce inequality and raise much-needed public funds after the economic shocks of the pandemic, the climate crisis and military conflicts in Europe and the Middle East.
They are calling for more countries to join their campaign, saying the annual sum raised would be enough to cover the estimated cost of damage caused by all of last year’s extreme weather events.
“It is time that the international community gets serious about tackling inequality and financing global public goods,” the ministers say in a Guardian comment piece.
Trump was handed very sour lemons from New York's prosecutors and judges, forcing him to stay in New York for trial. Now he's making lemonade as working voters flock to him.