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Marketplace.

The State of the American Consort. place.

The State of the American Consumer,

Sino American Relations, and Democracy,

and the state of this economy,

all as Janet Yellen sees them from American public media.

This is market plants. In Washington, D.C. today I'm Kai Rizdahl. It is Thursday the 9th of May.

Good as always to have you along everybody the way it works when you've got an interview with the Treasury Secretary is that you show your ID to the uniform Secret Service agent standing at the gate on Pennsylvania Avenue right outside the

White House and the Treasury Department building. Then you give your ID to the

Uniform Secret Service agent inside the guardhouse on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Then you get inside the building and you give your ID to the Uniform Secret Service agent at the

Guard Desk. A quick pass through the metal detector, up a flight of stairs and down a long

tiled corridor, into a kind of underwhelming conference room really you wait for a

couple of minutes and then you're on. Madam Secretary, welcome to the program.

Good to have you back.

Thanks for the invitation.

I want to start with inflation, just as a quickie,

even though technically not your job, I get that.

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