Yellen Names John Maynard Keynes as Her Ideal Lunch Partner

Janet Yellen

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen hailed the founding father of modern macroeconomics as her dream lunch date in a lightning-round of questions at an event Wednesday.

After Yellen reiterated her latest talking points on the US economy while on a visit to Detroit, the moderator asked her who she would like to have lunch with during a fireside chat with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.