View items related to this story JANET YELLEN: AN ECONOMIST WHO EXPLAINS IT ALL New CEA Chair Yellen has a knack for demystifying data When Janet L. Yellen was a graduate student in economics at Yale University, classmates quickly figured out that the best way to decipher Professor James Tobin's lectures was to borrow her notes. And long after Yellen received her PhD in 1971, the Yellen ...