Janet Yellen News Updates

Government, Business

Yellen Urges Swift Action as Debt Ceiling Looms

The department has in the past deployed what are known as “extraordinary measures†or accounting maneuvers to keep the government operating.

December 30, 2024
Government, Business, Technology

Yellen Tempers Expectations for Major EV Tax-Credit Tweaks

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is throwing cold water on expectations that the agency will provide relief to foreign automakers lobbying against stringent limits on a popular electric vehicle tax credit.

October 24, 2022
Government, Business, Equipment, TCA

Yellen to Speak at Ford Electric Vehicle Center

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will deliver an economic speech Sept. 8 at Ford Motor Co.’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Mich.

September 7, 2022
Government, Business, Logistics

Yellen Touts ‘Friend-Shoring’ as Global Supply Chain Fix

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on “trusted†U.S. allies to strengthen trade relationships to shore up global supply chains disrupted by the pandemic, worsened by Russia’s war in Ukraine and threatened longer term by a reliance on China.

July 19, 2022
Government, Business

US Might Need to Produce More of Its Own Goods, Yellen Says

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that U.S. reliance on foreign supply chains has proved a vulnerability and that the country needs to produce more critical goods domestically to protect its economic and national security.

December 7, 2021
Government, Business

Yellen Warns Delay in Raising Debt Limit Will Slow Economy

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sounded an urgent call Sept. 28 for Congress to raise the government’s borrowing limit, a day after Senate Republicans blocked consideration of a bill that would have done so.

September 28, 2021
Government, Business

Yellen Favors Higher Company Tax

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said President Joe Biden favors boosting taxes on companies, and signaled openness to considering raising rates on capital gains, while steering clear of a wealth levy.

February 22, 2021
Business

Fed's Yellen Sees Rate Hikes Ahead, But Few Hints on When

PHILADELPHIA — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on June 6 gave a largely upbeat assessment of the U.S. economic outlook and said interest rate hikes are coming, but, in an omission that stood out to some investors, gave little sense of when.

June 6, 2016
Business

Trucking Ready for Increases as Interest Rate Hikes Begin

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Dec. 16, announcing a quarter-point increase from the record lows set during the financial crisis of the 2008-2009 recession.

December 21, 2015