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Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

Our friends at NPR's news quiz Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! recently had a very Planet Money guest on their show: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. They asked her about smoking pot, her extremely high scores in Candy Crush, and when to expect the Harriet Tubman $20 bill.

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Janet Yellen says the real unemployment level could be 21 MILLION as she warns of a depression

Yellen said Monday: 'If we had a timely unemployment statistic, the unemployment rate probably would be up to 12 or 13% at this point and moving higher.' Ten million are now jobless.




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Monetary easing still needed: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen

While the economy appears likely to rebound from a first-quarter contraction, Yellen said the progress “bears close watching.