The Latest Breaking News from Janet Yellen

The Treasury Department released guidelines on Sept. 19 aiming to promote net-zero finance. The next day, six left-leaning senators, including Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen encouraging her to enact additional financial regulations related to climate and carbon emissions. 

Ed Yardeni believes bond vigilantes are attempting to spike Treasury yields in protest against unsustainable fiscal policy—but the Treasury Secretary isn’t so sure.

Over 3 million children are about to lose their government-funded care, and that’s about to punch a $9 billion hole in the economy. What's a mom to do?

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says working groups mark ‘important step forward’ in relationship with China.

The U.S. Treasury Department and China’s Ministry of Finance have launched a pair of economic working groups in an effort to ease tensions and deepen ties between the nations

Britain’s Prince William and wealthy entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg promise hope to a warming world

Yellen looks at one key statistic to determine if the U.S.'s national debt is sustainable, and she says it's "at a very reasonable level.”

The Biden administration plans to increase scrutiny of the investment plans of foreign-owned companies operating in the United States