Each year, the President of the San Francisco Fed joins the Federal Reserve Board Governor responsible for liaison with Asia on a "fact-finding" trip to the region. These trips advance the Bank's broad objectives of serving as a repository of expertise on economic, banking, and financial issues...

This Economic Letter is adapted from a speech by Janet L. Yellen, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to the Chartered Financial Analysts of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 7, 2008.

This Economic Letter is adapted from a speech delivered by Janet L. Yellen, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, on October 30, 2008, to the UC Berkeley-UCLA Symposium "The Mortgage Meltdown, the Economy, and Public Policy," at the University of California, Berkeley.

Speech at the Golden Gate University Speakers Series, San Francisco, CA, July 31, 2006

Speech before an Australian Business Economists luncheon, Sydney, Australia via satellite link from San Francisco, March 15, 2006

Speech to the Bay Area Council 18th Annual Outlook Conference, Alameda, California, April 16, 2008

Speech to UCLA Symposium at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, October 30, 2008

Speech to a Community Outreach Luncheon, Boise, ID, September 7, 2006

Presentation to the University of California at Berkeley Boalt School Alumni, San Francisco, March 2, 2005

Speech to the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Santa Clara, California, February 21, 2007