Fed Chair Janet Yellen 'dehydrated,' abruptly ends UMass talk on interest, inflation

Mass Live ^ | September 24, 2015 | Jim Kinney

[LostInBayport]

Only a bobblehead not living in the real world would believe inflation was under 2%.

Agreed. The grocery store is the best proof of this. All one has to do is remember. Take a candy bar. I don't eat them, but I was waiting in the checkout lane and was looking at them. I used to work in retail thirty years ago and had to stock them. They were much, much bigger and cost much, much less. One little example in a million of how our dollar has lost its value.

[JLS]

I saw the same thing happen to Anna Schwartz in a lecture 1991 or 1992. At the time Schwartz was older than Yellen is today. Schwartz lived another 20 years dying in 2012. So hopefully Yellen will bounce back as well.

[silverleaf]

Watched her speech and it seemed very much like she suffered a tia mini stroke, maybe several

[Grams A]

But it’s all offset by a decrease in the price of gasoline don’t you know!

[batterycommander]

The markets will take a dive tomorrow.

[DuncanWaring]

During her address she said inflation will go from near zero to the Fed's target of 2 percent in a few years.

I'm given to understand the legislation establishing the Federal Reserve directs it to maintain "stable prices", not "stable inflation".

[silverleaf]

Could that be why they are claiming she was “ dehydrated”?

[Nuc 1.1]

Bad stuff that.

[Fightin Whitey]

Drudge has the video posted...she’s strokin’ out, what it looks like to me.

[bicyclerepair]

Can’t even buy a 32oz bottle of shampoo. Not one in walmart. Now it’s 28oz.

I wonder how small the soap bars will become. I’m already a giant person so I notice size of stuff. Stuff is shrinking in an already midget world.

5’18” (6’6” for those in rio linda).

[LostInBayport]

I wonder how small the soap bars will become.

I've noticed that one too! Any smaller and they might as well stamp "trial size" on them.

[Jane Long]

Just watched. Scary/freaky.

[Fightin Whitey]

I see that and I head to the stage while dialing 911.

Even for a Fed Chairman, and a wretched one at that.

[LostInBayport]

That was rough.

[Hawthorn]

>> Too much fasting yesterday <<

Yep, she’s Jewish.

And if she’s observant, she should have had neither water nor food all day yesterday (Yom Kippur).

Aside from that irrelevant factoid, I gotta say that dehydration can be very serious for a 69-year old. Been there, done that.

[Jane Long]

Yes. Agree.

[JimRed]

Overuse of alcohol causes dehydration. Is she a drinker?