She's bad enough to have chaired the Fed, which means the banks like her. She also has some history of trusting the markets to figure shit out. But she's on the better end of Fed chairs and competent enough to run something that important. Probably better than most other economic advisors the Obama/Biden faction has, but that's a low bar.
Besides the cringe, Yellen is bad or really bad?
She's bad enough to have chaired the Fed, which means the banks like her. She also has some history of trusting the markets to figure shit out. But she's on the better end of Fed chairs and competent enough to run something that important. Probably better than most other economic advisors the Obama/Biden faction has, but that's a low bar.
bad enough