The sensibility of Janet Yellen

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

How president-elect Joe Biden has tapped Janet Yellen to be the first female treasury secretary. And the mall Santas making it work.

Economist Janet L. Yellen has had many jobs, even in the White House. Now, she’s going to be the secretary of the Treasury Department — if confirmed — in Biden’s Cabinet. Economics correspondent Heather Long explains the significance of her nomination.

And, this year, Santa performers are braving the pandemic with plexiglass, sanitation elves and snow globe bubbles.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this is Vanessa Williams from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hey, it's Philip Rutger at the Washington Post.
0:12.0	Do you have a minute?
0:13.0	Hi, this is Dan Zag.
0:14.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Maggie Penman.
0:20.0	It's Friday, December 18th.
0:24.0	Today, the woman tap to lead the treasury.
0:27.0	And how the North Pole is coping with the pandemic.
0:36.0	Today, I have the pleasure of announcing key nominations
0:41.0	and appointments for the critical economic positions in the administration.
0:46.0	Joe Biden surprised a lot of people at first by picking Janet Yellen
0:50.0	to be his treasury secretary nominee.
0:53.0	Thank you, Mr. President-elect.
0:55.0	And Madam Vice President-elect.
0:58.0	It's my great honor to have this opportunity to serve you and the American people.
1:04.0	Yellen is best known as the former head of the Federal Reserve.
1:08.0	And she was vice chair of the Fed before that,
1:10.0	and president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank before that.
1:14.0	But she's also been in the White House before.
1:16.0	She was actually on Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors in the late 1990s.
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