Janet Goes to Washington
Courtesy of Jr. Deputy Accountant
The Senate Banking Committee has approved Janet Yellen as Fed vice chair, bringing her one step closer to becoming the second most powerful asshat within the Fed. Obviously Ben Bernanke needed a chirping puppet at his side nodding yes to each and every statement and he’s about to get the best one they could find.
"The members of the board will clearly have their hands full," said Chris Dodd in response to his committee’s approval. The AP does not specify whether he laughed diabolically or just smirked when he said it. I vote both.
Next Janet must be confirmed by the Senate. We doubt the Senate knows enough about how the economy really works to offer up much resistance. We guess Richard Shelby has taken Econ 101 however as he stated he was opposing Yellen because she would bring an "inflationary bias" to the Board.
If that’s what we’re calling it these days…
