16 th 16 trillion dollar woman? the size of the economy. having met her husband at the fed cafeteria 36 years ago, kitchen table realism about her that comes from growing newspaper bay ridge and watching unemployed folks and they come to her father s clinic and sometimes not able to pay the bills and that is a somewhat different background than your average monetary policies are and she talks about in a series of interviews. what was the most impressive thing janet yellen told time ? she was quite frank how optimistic she was for the u.s. economy and looking for perhaps 3% this year and quite focused on main street and talking in ways that central bankers don t normally about the importance of regulation going forward. you ve got a big piece in the magazine about spike jones,