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We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens.
Janet Reno
Law
Try
Must
Law Enforcement
Weight
True
Understand
Officers
Burdens
Enforcement
I didn't like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn't like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.
Janet Reno
Me
Thinking
Telling
About
More
Knew
Town
Like
Coming
Miami
Than
Them
We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.
Janet Reno
Best
Home
Learning
Behavior
Recognize
Classrooms
Learned
Violence
A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.
Janet Reno
Key
White
Criminal
Telephone
Pen
Collar
Stroke
Carry
Only
Steal
Computer
Pushing
He
Does
White-Collar
Billions
Street
I think young people can make such an extraordinarily important difference in making this world a better place.
Janet Reno
People
World
Better
Important
Young
Think
Extraordinarily
Better Place
Make
Making
Difference
Place
Young People
Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.
Janet Reno
Work
Teacher
Problems
Argument
Resolve
Other
Peer
Administration
Having
Students
Disagreements
Involved
Without
Get
Them
Help
Mediation
Chance
The Justice Department is staunchly committed to ensuring that all Americans are treated in a fair and just manner.
Janet Reno
Justice
All Americans
Ensuring
Fair
American
Department
Committed
Just
Justice Department
Manner
Treated
Unless the law issues from all of the people, some of the people will feel left out. They will come to feel alienated. They will be angry. And this will not be a cohesive democracy.
Janet Reno
Angry
Democracy
People
Law
Will
Unless
Alienated
Out
Some
Feel
Come
Issues
Left
Cohesive
I just don't like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.
Janet Reno
Selfish
Greedy
Indifferent
Lawyers
Like
Just
Them
Many
Many financial innovations such as the increased availability of low-cost mutual funds have improved opportunities for households to participate in asset markets and diversify their holdings.
Janet Yellen
Mutual Funds
Financial
Opportunities
Increased
Innovations
Markets
Mutual
Diversify
Participate
Households
Improved
Availability
Low-Cost
Many
Asset
Funds
Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the volatility of inflation and employment. As a result, I believe a macro-prudential approach to supervision and regulation needs to play the primary role.
Janet Yellen
Needs
Financial
Result
Inflation
Believe
Increase
Approach
Financial Stability
Adjustment
Would
Promote
Rates
Through
Supervision
Volatility
Primary
Employment
Role
Efforts
Stability
Interest
Interest Rates
Regulation
Play
In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.
Janet Yellen
Benefits
Long
Giving
Ways
Run
Long Run
Cheaper
Outsourcing
Economy
Another
Trade
Form
Us
Things
Transparency concerning the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy is desirable because better public understanding enhances the effectiveness of policy. More important, however, is that transparent communications reflect the Federal Reserve's commitment to accountability within our democratic system of government.
Janet Yellen
Government
Commitment
Better
Important
Understanding
Reflect
Accountability
Our
System
More
Federal
Democratic
Concerning
Policy
Because
Within
However
Effectiveness
Conduct
Public
Communications
Transparency
Transparent
Reserve
Enhances
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Desirable
I've been collecting rocks since I was 8 and have over 200 different specimens.
Janet Yellen
Collecting
Over
Since
Been
Rocks
Different
I want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose 'Audit the Fed.'
Janet Yellen
Oppose
Strongly
Fed
Clear
Audit
Want
After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.
Janet Yellen
Inflation
Other
Top
Adjusting
Households
Real
Than
Grew
After
Average
Less
Comparison
Income
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.
Janet Yellen
Inflation
Pay
Loathe
Changes
Market
Relative
Argued
Economists
Most
Nominal
Although
Yale
Without
Enable
Occur
Wage
Labor
American
May
Wheels
Little
Cuts
Workers
Requiring
Apparently
Necessary
Grease
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.
Janet Yellen
Work
Government
Capitalism
Believe
Intervention
Markets
Admirers
Also
Make
Limitations
While
Them
Require
Certain
Certain Extent
Extent
Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.
Janet Yellen
Food
Inflation
Predict
Energy
Other
Changes
Distinguish
Enter
Total
Prices
Between
Goods
Models
Movements
Which
Commonly
Energy Prices
Used
Describe
Services
Core
The Federal Reserve ranks among the most transparent central banks. We publish a summary of our balance sheet every week. Our financial statements are audited annually by an outside auditor and made public. Every security we hold is listed on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Janet Yellen
Website
Balance
Financial
Made
Publish
Every
Our
Summary
Statements
Ranks
Security
Week
Federal
Federal Reserve
Outside
New
Most
Sheet
York
Listed
Bank
New York
Banks
Hold
Central
Public
Transparent
Reserve
Among
U.S. economic activity continues to expand, led by solid growth in household spending. But business investment remains soft, and subdued foreign demand and the appreciation of the dollar since mid-2014 continue to restrain exports.
Janet Yellen
Business
Appreciation
Spending
Solid
Restrain
Economic
Economic Activity
Remains
Investment
Demand
Since
Household
Foreign
Continue
Dollar
Subdued
Led
Expand
Exports
Activity
Growth
Soft
Stronger productivity growth would tend to raise the average level of interest rates and, therefore, would provide the Federal Reserve with greater scope to ease monetary policy in the event of a recession.
Janet Yellen
Stronger
Recession
Ease
Would
Rates
Tend
Federal
Federal Reserve
Policy
Greater
Provide
Scope
Interest
Interest Rates
Average
Productivity
Therefore
Reserve
Event
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Growth
Level
Raise
When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.
Janet Yellen
You
Job
Year
Months
Find
Table
Qualify
Lease
Off
Unemployed
Option
Often
Six
Hard
Even
Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.
Janet Yellen
Business
Believe
Think
Unless
Paradigm
Merchandise
Contacts
Builders
Permanent
Shift
Lined
Sell
Up
Order
Stores
Produce
Manufacturers
Describe
Away
Right
Right Away
Buyers
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.
Janet Yellen
Problem
Will
Intervention
Absence
Economies
Employment
Obviously
Operate
Social
Capitalist
Full
Certainly
Routine
Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.
Janet Yellen
Side
Term
Most
Occurs
However
Very
Contribute
Short
Short-Term
Painful
Productivity
Growth
Things
Disruptive
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