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Janet Yellen is an American economist, who was the chair (2014–18) of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (commonly known as the Fed), the central bank of the United States, and secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2021–25). She was the first woman to hold each of…
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