In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

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Janet Yellen was a contemporary American economist and government official. Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist who served as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury from 2021 to 2025. She also served as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Faith — Reflections on belief, spirituality, and trust in the unseen

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