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Janet Yellen: View of the Economic Crisis and the Fed's Response
A View of the Economic Crisis and the Federal Reserve's Response
Janet L. Yellen, Ph.D., President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Amid the deepest recession of the postwar era, the Federal Reserve faces one of the gravest challenges of its 96-year history. Yellen assesses the state of the economy while explaining the thinking and the actions behind some of the Fed’s precedent-shattering initiatives to rescue a financial system in crisis and help jump-start economic growth.
MLF: Business & Leadership
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program
Cost: $8 members, $15 non-members
Program Organizer: Tom Waller
June 30, 2009