{"id":12157,"date":"2013-12-02T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T10:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12157"},"modified":"2013-12-02T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T10:53:28","slug":"yellen-had-a-passion-for-psycology-not-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12157","title":{"rendered":"Yellen had a passion for psycology, not economy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janet Yellen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She\u2019s about to become one of the most influential financial leaders in the world, but a classmate who sat in front of Janet Yellen at Brooklyn\u2019s Ft. Hamilton HS says he was \u201cshocked\u201d at her career path.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think she had a passion for economics,\u201d recalled Ron Vincent, a former Wall Street guy who took the same economics class as the incoming Federal Reserve Bank chair and who now heads Hi Investors Capital.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked. She was in the psychology club.\u201d\u00a0Now, he added in awe, \u201cShe\u2019s going to be the world\u2019s most powerful woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yellen\u2019s yearbook entry shows she was editor of the school paper, The Pilot, as well as a member of the Arista honor society, the Boosters basketball program, the Minutemen history club and the psychology club.<\/p>\n

As head of the Fed, Yellen will help guide US monetary policies, affecting the pocketbooks of Americans and consumers across the globe.<\/p>\n

Yellen\u2019s four-year term begins Feb. 1. President Obama nominated her to the post in October.\u00a0She is currently the Fed\u2019s vice chair. Source: NYP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She\u2019s about to become one of the most influential financial leaders in the world, but a classmate who sat in front of Janet Yellen at Brooklyn\u2019s Ft. Hamilton HS says he was \u201cshocked\u201d at her career path. \u201cI didn\u2019t think she had a passion for economics,\u201d recalled Ron Vincent, a former Wall Street guy who … Continue reading “Yellen had a passion for psycology, not economy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[4483,7515,90,1880],"class_list":["post-12157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-federal-reserve-bank","tag-janet-yellen","tag-obama","tag-wall-street"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/yellen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12159,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions\/12159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}