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If Anyone Can Make Investors Happy, It’s Janet Yellen
As Fed chair, she earned the markets’ trust. That should help her succeed as Treasury secretary.
Due diligence.
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If Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen means anything to business, labor and the world right now, it is as the avatar of the moral that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Yellen, who was the only female chair of the 108-year-old Federal Reserve, has never done anything without exceptional due diligence. Her best-in-class career delivering financial stability bodes well as she manages the deeply depressed No. 1 economy rebounding from the largest contraction in gross domestic product since World War II and restores American prosperity.