After Bernanke, ABirdofa Different Feather

摘要

Eating in the employee cafeteria was considered outre for Federal Reserve governors when Janet Yellen joined the board in 1994-so much so that a writer for the Minneapolis Fed's quarterly magazine, The Region, called her on it in an interview. "It is a bit uncommon, because the Board is a somewhat hierarchical place," Yellen confessed. "I can't frankly tell you why that is. But that's not the way I operate. Eating in the cafeteria with the staff is a pretty good way to learn what people are thinking about, what's on their mind. And I enjoy the interaction."