Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen at the Economic Club of New York (ECNY)

As Prepared for Delivery Thank you. It is a tremendous honor to receive the Peter G. Peterson Leadership Excellence Award and to join the ranks of the distinguished group of policymakers who are its previous awardees. I’m also very glad to have the chance to speak to all of you today at a venue that, since 1907, has served as one of the country’s premier fora for discussion of domestic and global issues. I last spoke here at the Economic Club of New York in 2016 as Chair of the Federal Reserve. I discussed a topic that was then at the heart of my work: the Federal Reserve’s pursuit of maximum employment and price stability.