Yellen: the trailblazing economist who navigated an era of upheaval

Part I: love stories

Yellen's youth: "I'm going to tell you mother," 1946-1967

Akerlof's youth: exotic furry creatures, 1940-1967

Yellen at Yale and Harvard: rowing upstream, 1968-1976

Akerlof's early voyages: lemons and the Hills of Olympus, 1968-1976 - Yellen and Akerlof meet: in the grips of a long inflation and a fast romance, 1977-1978

Part II: battlegrounds

Redefining Keynes: inside the ideological battles that shaped Yellen's generation, 1940s-1980s

Yellen and Akerlof at Berkeley: labor of love, 1978-1990

Behavioral economists: remarkable errors in the history of economic thought, 1980s and 1990s

Yellen, Akerlof, and Socialism's failure: the Richtungskoeffizent, 1989-1994

Yellen becomes a central bander: confronting a maestro, 1994-1997

Yellen in the Clinton White House: boom times and boys' clubs, 1997-1999

Trade in the twilight of a golden age: China, Mexico, and Ricardo's theory of advantage, 1993-2001

Part III: crisis

Akerlof wins a Nobel, Yellen returns to the Fed: lessons from a financial bubble and jobless recovery, 2000-2004

Yellen as a regulator: an introduction to Frankenstein finance, 2004-2006

Yellen and Akerlof see storms from the lighthouse: nursing the economy and Robby's damaged back, 2007

Financial panic: Bernanke's loyal field commander, 2008

"These are fucking people!": at the center of a new way of central banking, 2009-2010

Yellen as #2: palace intrigue, 2010-2014

Yellen becomes leader: a summer of summers, 2014-2014

Part IV: leader

Identity crisis: Akerlof's new theory of reds versus greens, 2014

Yellen leads the Fed: flying a plane with no gauges, 2014-2015

Yellen loses her job: too short, 2016-2018

Professor Robert Akerlof: explaining a read and blue America, 2018-2020

Yellen makes history: cleaning up another mess, 2020

Yellen leads the Treasury: trillions, 2021

Janet at war: causing bank runs in the streets of St. Petersburg, 2021-2022

Conclusion: bonds.