What’s left to explain Janet Yellen’s dismissal except that she’s a woman?

Over the past week, Donald Trump has made one thing clear: Fed chair Janet Yellen isn’t from “central casting.” Now that we know she won’t be reappointed as head of the Federal Reserve when her term expires in February, the compliments are flooding in.

Over the past week, Donald Trump has made one thing clear: Fed chair Janet Yellen isn’t from “central casting.” Now that we know she won’t be reappointed as head of the Federal Reserve when her term expires in February, the compliments are flooding in.

Even her fiercest critics can’t find many bad things to say. Trump, who broke a 40-year tradition of reappointing a prior president’s Fed chair to name Jerome Powell in her stead, has described Yellen as “excellent” and congratulated her on a job well done.

Others mix their praise of Yellen with incredulity that she is being replaced.

But gushing about Yellen’s qualifications and performance is a relatively new thing, spurred on by her near-spotless term as Fed chair as well as the precedent-breaking decision not to reappoint her for another term.

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