Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is a former Treasury Secretary, former head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, and current professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.

Janet Yellen rejects Trump’s idea of a Fed 'shadow president,' warning it threatens the Fed’s independence and economic ...

November 20, 2017 - Yellen tells President Trump in a letter that she will step down from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors when her successor is sworn in as the new chairman. February 5, 2018 ...

Every Fed Chair gets remembered for something. Paul Volcker tamed inflation in the 1980s. Alan Greenspan presided over the dot-com boom and bust in the 1990s through the early 2000s. Ben Bernanke ...

This particular economic picture does somewhat resemble the 1970s, Much like Mr Trump’s “Liberation Day”, Richard Nixon’s “Shock” of rejecting the gold standard rocked the global ...

Economist Rob Shapiro warns that Trump’s policies and threats to the Fed could push the U.S. into a severe recession.

Averaging out GDP growth the first two quarters — which were each distorted by import swings — the US economy grew at an annualised rate of about 1.25 per cent over the first half of the year, marking ...

Global economic growth is on track for its weakest decade since the 1960s, according to a new analysis by the World Bank, which cites President Donald Trump’s trade war as a major factor ...

Despite ongoing uncertainty in the global economy, U.S. workers continue to recognize the value of retirement savings tools such as 401 (k) plans and IRAs, even in challenging market conditions.