WWDTM: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

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4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen joins Dulcé Sloan, Tom Papa, and Shane O'Neill to talk the economy, how she prepared to smoke weed for the first time, and her Candy Crush score.

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0:31.1	sound cool since 2022.
0:33.2	Chioki Iansa.
0:35.2	And here's your host at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago,
0:40.3	Peter Siegel.
0:41.3	Thank you, Chiloki. Thank you. Thank you so much.
0:45.0	We have a fabulous show plan for you today.
0:50.0	It's a special one because later on we are going to be joined on stage by the Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen.
0:58.0	Very exciting.
1:00.0	An important day for us as you know anything she says can move the market
1:06.9	so I would suggest in the 20 minutes or so before we get to ask her questions
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