PEOPLE across a broad swath of Philippine society became fans of Janet Yellen, the Fed Chair and said to be the most powerful public official in the world, when she used her first House appearance to talk about the plight of the unfortunate in the US. Used to our hectoring, pompous technocrats who wish that the poor were better dead than alive, Yellen was seen as a person of both gravitas and humanity.
Since then, many have been reading her public statements to see whether that initial commiseration with America’s underclass was a deep personal and professional conviction – and not just an outlier of a statement.
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