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

Mass Live ^ | September 24, 2015 | Jim Kinney

[LostInBayport]

AMHERST - Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said Thursday that she expects the Fed to raise interest rates later this year and then continue gradual increases thereafter during a University of Massachusetts address that ended with her seeking medical attention.

A spokesman for the university said the 69-year-old was fine after being checked out by EMTs and was to continue her schedule which included a faculty dinner at the home of Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy.

A spokesman for the Federal Reserve Board said, "Chair Yellen felt dehydrated at the end of a long speech under bright lights. As a precaution, she was seen by EMT staff on-site at U-Mass Amherst." He confirmed that she planned to continue with her schedule.

Yellen was delivering the annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall.

Yellen appeared to lose her place in her speech and said, "I think I'll stop here." As faculty thanked her EMTs rushed up to her and walked with her into a waiting room where she was checked out.

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

[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?