James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
12:29 P.M. EDT
MS. PSAKI: Hey. Hi, everyone. We were a little early today. I apologize for that. Okay, so good afternoon and happy “Jobs Day.” Today I’m honored to have Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen join me here.
Secretary Yellen has almost 50 years of experience in academia and public service. She’s the first person in history to have led the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department.
Her scholarship has focused on a range of issues pertaining to labor and macroeconomics. And her work on efficiency wages with her husband, George Akerlof, showed that firms that offer better pay and working conditions tend to be rewarded with higher morale, reduce turnover, and greater productivity.
War or peace in Ukraine?
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War or peace in Ukraine?
Carl Bildt Filed on April 20, 2021
For two decades after the Soviet Union’s breakup, Russia focused primarily on building its own state and forging its own identity.
Can Russia accept living peacefully next to a sovereign, independent, and undivided Ukraine? Or is open war inevitable? This has long been the paramount question for Eastern Europe, and it has abruptly returned to the fore with the massive buildup of Russian military forces in Crimea and along Ukraine’s eastern border.
Ukrainian independence was the issue that definitively broke up the Soviet Union three decades ago. While the departure of other Soviet republics would not necessarily have been an existential threat, Ukraine’s declaration of independence absolutely was. It sealed the Soviet Union’s fate, a collapse remembered by Russian President Vladimir Putin as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the twentieth century.