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Opinion: Janet Yellen is wrong about US manufacturing — and pretty much everything else
The Hill ^ | 04/18/2025 | Liz Peek, opinion contributor

Posted on 04/18/2025 2:43:45 PM PDT by packrat35

Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the crew at CNBC this week that President Trump’s goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. was a “pipe dream.”

It was an odd remark, given how her former boss, Joe Biden, ran for president on the prospect that he could revive manufacturing in the U.S. — the central pillar of his promise to rebuild the economy “from the bottom up and middle out.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: tariffs
Good article explaining that the democrats and Yellen were all for tariffs until President Trump wanted them and that Yellen was an absolute disaster while in office.
1 posted on 04/18/2025 2:43:45 PM PDT by packrat35
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To: packrat35

She is just trying to sabotage what is good for America.


2 posted on 04/18/2025 2:46:22 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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To: packrat35

Part of the ‘wealth of a job’ is the money - a larger part is belonging, dignity and being competitive to have a wife and family. Right now the ‘elites’ only want the perks - the parts that matter - for themselves. Just ask that idiot CNN’s Smerconish. Ask how many 26 year old male hunks work at CNN compared to 26 women hotties... and who benefits for the eye candy.


3 posted on 04/18/2025 2:49:38 PM PDT by GOPJ (Elites want the gravy train running ripping us off for NATO, Tariffs and bad trade deals. NO MORE.)
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To: packrat35

Part of the ‘wealth of a job’ is the money - a larger part is belonging, dignity and being competitive to have a wife and family. Right now the ‘elites’ only want the perks - the parts that matter - for themselves. Just ask that idiot CNN’s Smerconish. Ask how many 26 year old male hunks work at CNN compared to 26 women hotties... and who benefits for the eye candy. White liberal ‘elites’ want it all. Maybe Mark Cuban can be honest when invited back.


4 posted on 04/18/2025 2:51:07 PM PDT by GOPJ (Elites want the gravy train running ripping us off for NATO, Tariffs and bad trade deals. NO MORE.)
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To: packrat35

Recall when Obama sarcastically dismissed Trump’s campaign promise to bring back American jobs saying, What’s he going to do wave a magic wand? Tariffs may be that magic wand.

ps

Old Yellen was grossly overrated. She’s a DEI dope.


5 posted on 04/18/2025 2:53:53 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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DEMOCRAT Yellen. Still a Democrat, politicking as a Democrat.
6 posted on 04/18/2025 2:58:49 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Opinion: Janet Yellen is wrong about US manufacturing — and pretty much everything else

Right next to Liz Peek and The Hill.

7 posted on 04/18/2025 3:04:36 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: packrat35

Janet Yellen is who said abortion is good for economic growth.

No reason to ever listen to a word she says again.


8 posted on 04/18/2025 3:05:23 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Manufacturing coming back to the US is a great plan. But people need to realize that the 2025 factory is VERY different than the ones that moved out in the late 1990s.

Where a factory would employ 1,500 people in the past, there is likely 300 there now. Automation and robotics have replaced people-that are inefficient, inaccurate, and prone to take holidays off.

I would prefer US based jobs and goods. But let’s not kid ourselves. The main jobs would be hauling in raw materials, hauling out finished goods, and repairing the robotic machines. The first two are not “high paying” and the last one will require some higher skills.


9 posted on 04/18/2025 3:06:54 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Jim W N

Maybe so, but this time she got it right about Janet Yellen...


10 posted on 04/18/2025 3:07:42 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: packrat35
Yellen was born and bred to spend her final years in a gulag. Let's pay Putin to put her away.

11 posted on 04/18/2025 3:28:20 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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I really despise this yenta. She has been trotted out from one Rat administration to another as if she was accomplished. For her, Democrats first America as a whole last. Spit.


12 posted on 04/18/2025 3:29:05 PM PDT by DAC21
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Every time I’ve seen her, she has come across as incompetent.


13 posted on 04/18/2025 3:31:05 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: packrat35
Our former Treasury Secretary


14 posted on 04/18/2025 3:39:21 PM PDT by Ditto
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She looks like Jimmy Kimmel in a wig.🤡
This broad has to go.


15 posted on 04/18/2025 4:05:57 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
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To: packrat35

How that Muppet got has far as she did is one of the mysteries of the universe. Outside of being a political hack, has she been right about anything?


16 posted on 04/18/2025 4:24:53 PM PDT by Obadiah
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Yellen’s intelligence is transitory.


17 posted on 04/18/2025 8:41:10 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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To: packrat35

As foty foe said ‘new normal’
All that is screwed up by democrat and then alludes the democrat fudge gets filed under the eat your peas category and subsequently dismissed.
Future work to correct the f’ups is then ridiculed.
I despise woke news.


18 posted on 04/19/2025 4:03:42 AM PDT by Recompennation
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