Surveillance: Extraordinary Support Needed, Yellen Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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cJanet Yellen, Former Federal Reserve Chair, says the pandemic needs to be controlled to get the economy back on track. Seema Shah, Principal Global Chief Strategist, says the pandemic and central banks will remain stronger drivers of markets than the U.S. election. Jon Lieber, Eurasia Group U.S. Managing Director, says Joe Biden could face a real political risk if a fiscal stimulus is passed before the November election. Joshua Sharfstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Vice Dean, says the FDA has an important role to play in the vaccine safety message.
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| 0:57.2 | Now a wonderful opportunity to speak to the 15th Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, Janet Yellen, a Fed chair through some of the most difficult |
| 1:06.0 | years of this nation. Of course, we mentioned earlier her work on an American labor economy to bring it out of that slack. |
| 1:14.5 | Of course, of Yale of a time of Tobin and Stiglitz, |
| 1:18.4 | and now after the Fed at the Brookings Institution |
| 1:21.8 | with important work with a group of 30 on climate. |
| 1:25.0 | I want to get to that Chair Yellen in a moment, but I really must ask about the weekend speculation of Treasury Secretary Yellen. |
| 1:34.3 | If we were to get a Biden administration, |
| 1:37.9 | would you be willing to serve for a President Biden? I appreciate your asking and the notion that it's a job I can do, but I really have no comment on that. I'm sorry. |
| 1:50.0 | Well, that would be good and we of course knew that would be the gracious answer from Janet |
| 1:55.2 | Yellen. |
| 1:56.2 | Cheyellen away from the monetary discussion and maybe we'll touch on that a bit here. |
| 2:00.7 | We must speak about this important research. You were steeped in this. a Nobel Laureate |
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