Ben Leubsdorf was formerly a reporter in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau, covering the economy. He joined the Journal in January 2014 after working for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire ...

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen testifies during a hearing before the House Committee on Financial Services at Rayburn House Office Building on July 9, 2024 on Capitol Hill in ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 4, 2024. Shots for fired by a Secret Service agent near her home on Tuesday.

The whiplash-inducing, “Hun­ger Games”-style race to become Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary made it easy to ignore what has been going on with Janet Yellen — and her absolute mess.

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting ...

In her remarks, which Yellen acknowledged were unusual for her to make as the country’s fiscal and economic policy chief, she took aim at the efforts led by former President Donald Trump to ...

The Biden administration's spending on stimulus to keep the economy going during the COVID pandemic may have contributed a little bit to inflation, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen criticized the prior administration often in a speech on Thursday. She didn't name Trump, but said his appointees rolled back key regulations to protect the economy ...

A Treasury Department spokesperson said Yellen did not resign and remains in her Cabinet position.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she believes the U.S. economy is making the “soft landing” that she predicted two years ago, when inflation soared after the pandemic.