Yellen's encore: Lending economic heft to Biden's virus plan
โYellen is uniquely poised," said Brian Deese, director of Bidenโs National Economic Council. "She has as much experience and expertise of addressing the challenges of our time as any living economic policymaker today. AdYellen juggled parenting with her work as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1980s, helping to build her sonโs pinewood derby car as a colleague fed economic data into a computer. Itโs an argument cultivated from years of research that fully blossomed during Yellenโs time as Fed chair. She said Yellen values differences of opinion and diversity because that helps her get a fuller sense of the economy.
Yellen: Biden's plan could restore full employment by 2022
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON โ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday the country was still in a โdeep holeโ with millions of lost jobs but that President Joe Bidenโs $1.9 trillion relief plan could generate enough growth to restore full employment by next year. Summers also contended that Bidenโs plan would make less money available for other initiatives such as improving the nationโs infrastructure. The proposal will be part of the COVID-19 relief bill they are writing that is expected to largely follow Bidenโs plan. Under the House Democratsโ plan, those amounts would begin to phase out for individual parents earning $75,000 yearly and couples making $150,000. She said if Bidenโs relief package is approved, the country could get back to full employment by next year.
Gary Oldman on finding the frequency of 'Mank'
But Fincher cast Oldmanโs manager, Douglas Urbanski (as Larry Summers in โThe Social Networkโ), before he called up Oldman about another role. Orson Welles was a genius and if everybody doesnโt know that, I donโt know what to say.โIn crafting the portrait of Mankiewicz, Fincher wanted Oldman as himself. Oldman was himself once an alcoholic and, like Mank, prone to audacious gambles. Back when he was drinking, Oldman chose between two simultaneous offers โ โWaterworldโ and โThe Scarlet Letterโ โ with a coin flip. In a court filing in 2001, Fiorentino alleged that Oldman hit her with a telephone, an allegation that Oldman strongly denies.