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Janet Yellen departs from office — as she leaves a trail of mess behind her
NY Post ^ | 11/23/24 | Charles Gasparino

Posted on 11/24/2024 3:00:10 AM PST by Libloather

The whiplash-inducing, “Hun­ger Games”-style race to become Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary made it easy for the media to ignore what has been going on with Janet Yellen — and the absolute mess she’s leaving for her successor.

Yellen — who, it was revealed Friday, will be replaced as Treasury secretary in January by hedge fund mogul Scott Bessent — was Joe Biden’s pick to run the office that is essentially the country’s CFO.

Indeed, it could be the most important cabinet position in the White House given the importance of the US economy. Americans put Trump in office largely over his handling of the economy during his first term — job growth and wages that kept place with a low inflation rate.

Despite her gold-plated résumé, Ivy League degrees, and time served as Fed chair, Yellen gave the country just the opposite. Her boss paid the price politically as the American people paid the price economically.

And according to my sources, the American people aren’t done paying the price for Yellen’s mismanagement even if most of the financial media is overlooking the fiscal time bomb she devised — one that could blow up once Trump takes office.

Specifically, my sources who follow the bond market say Yellen has been setting a trap for the incoming Trump administration through the way she financed the massive $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit that exploded during the Biden years with the accumulation of $36 trillion in debt.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: clowardpiven; dei; financialsecurity; janetyellen; mess; secretary; treasury; usefulidiot; yellen
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Sounds bad.
1 posted on 11/24/2024 3:00:10 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Janet Yellen departs from office — as she leaves a trail of mess behind her

A total mess, but the treasurer doesn't really do anything. They're just the national accountant. The Congress controls fiscal policy and the Fed controls monetary policy, and neither can make hard decisions to fix the currency and country's finances, so more inflation here we go.

2 posted on 11/24/2024 3:06:16 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Libloather

Between her time as Fed Chairman and Treasury Secretary, rarely has one person done so much damage to so many people, the vast majority of which are the working middle class.

She’s personally destroyed the financial security of millions of Americans.


3 posted on 11/24/2024 3:08:30 AM PST by srmanuel ( the)
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To: Libloather

Janet Yellen should have retired years ago, bought herself a big floppy sunhat, and puttered away retirement in a garden. Her failure to retire in a timely manner has cost us a great deal of money.


4 posted on 11/24/2024 3:10:48 AM PST by NautiNurse (With a cough and a sputter, the original lying dog-faced pony soldier is led out to pasture. )
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To: srmanuel
She’s personally destroyed the financial security of millions of Americans.

I disagree with you somewhat on this. So-called "conservative" Jerome Powell, as Fed chairman, printed massive amounts of money in the COVID era (2020-21) that we're still paying for today. If Yellen was Fed chairman at the time, would it have been worse? Probably, but we'll never know.

5 posted on 11/24/2024 3:19:17 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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FTA-——Despite her gold-plated résumé, Ivy League degrees, and time served as Fed chair, Biden paid the price politically as the American people paid the price economically for her bungling.

Americans aren’t done paying the price for Yellen’s mismanagement as most of the financial media overlooks the fiscal time bomb she devised — one that could blow up once Trump takes office.

Specifically, my sources who follow the bond market say Yellen has been setting a trap for the incoming Trump administration through the way she financed the massive $1.8 trillion federal budget deficit that exploded during the Biden years with the accumulation of $36 trillion in debt.


6 posted on 11/24/2024 3:40:50 AM PST by Liz (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to RULE. (H.L, Mencken))
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To: Libloather

What else floats?


7 posted on 11/24/2024 3:56:57 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Libloather

When you pick someone from academia with no significant private sector experience, this is what happens. It was predictable.


8 posted on 11/24/2024 4:00:50 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Right_Wing_Madman; srmanuel

One thing we can probably all agree on though... what a hair-doo!

I expect to see Kimmie K. sporting it soon.


9 posted on 11/24/2024 4:24:23 AM PST by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: srmanuel

“ She’s personally destroyed the financial security of millions of Americans.”

As planned.


10 posted on 11/24/2024 4:31:39 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Drill Baby Drill!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

She started as Treasury secretary under Biden in January 2021 and as the article states began a practice of short term financing of what traditionally was long term debt all for political purposes, now Trump and Bessent have manage the short term refinancing properly to avoid a run up on long term interest rates and crashing the housing market, in other words she left a financial crisis for the next president to clean up


11 posted on 11/24/2024 4:40:48 AM PST by srmanuel ( the)
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To: Libloather

Yellen an idiot...all in on global warming and dumb/malignant on nation’s Treasury matters.


12 posted on 11/24/2024 5:06:25 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: srmanuel

Almost as if it has been planned from the start.


13 posted on 11/24/2024 5:07:40 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: srmanuel
She started as Treasury secretary under Biden in January 2021

Powell replaced Yellen as Fed chairman in 2018.

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/janet-l-yellen

As I said in a previous post, the Fed chairman (along with his board) prints the money, and the Treasurer accounts for the damage.

14 posted on 11/24/2024 5:11:35 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Libloather

In Russia, a screw up of this magnitude would result in execution.


15 posted on 11/24/2024 5:12:59 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: Libloather
She can't hit the road fast enough.


16 posted on 11/24/2024 5:16:25 AM PST by Sirius Lee
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

I understand when she was at both places, it’s a double shot of mismanagement, first at the Fed and later at the Treasury Department, she was terrible at both places, she got rewarded for her loyalty to the Democrats and the establishment for political decisions which caused untold millions of Americans to suffer.


17 posted on 11/24/2024 5:31:05 AM PST by srmanuel ( the)
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To: Libloather

Her testimony in congressional hearings was always a babble of what to do wrong.


18 posted on 11/24/2024 5:32:32 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
I don't know about that. That lamebrain Carter appointed Paul Volcker chairman of the Fed who then raised interest rate to 20% to control inflation. Mortgage interest went to 24%.

It brought inflation down but collapsed the economy in the process. Construction and manufacturing were the first to go and those are always two Prime Forces in our economy.

19 posted on 11/24/2024 5:40:20 AM PST by LouAvul (He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.)
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To: NautiNurse

She’s a hag.


20 posted on 11/24/2024 5:59:10 AM PST by yldstrk
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