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'It is a tool that's available,' Yellen says at Reuters event regarding sanctions on Chinese banks that facilitate transactions that aid Russia's military.

Yellen to Reuters on trade/protectionism: 'Generally, I've been in favor of free trade, but it has to be something that broadly benefits people throughout the country.'

Yellen to Reuters on Chinese green energy overcapacity: 'We're concerned about over dependence on one single country for total global supply of this full range of products. That's not a healthy situation.'

On Russian central bank assets, Yellen says at Reuters event that she thinks 'outright seizure of the assets' is justifiable under international law.

G7 officials are also considering using interest on the assets to issue bonds or grant loans, she says.

Yellen tells Reuters the US could get several hundred billion dollars in tax revenue if Congress would get into compliance with the global tax deal next year.

Yellen, at Reuters, says she not seeing evidence that the labor market is so 'hot' that wage pressures are a source of inflation.

Notes that Powell has said he wants to see more evidence of a sustainable decline of inflation before cutting rates.

Yellen at Reuters event: 'To me, the data says we're on a downward path for inflation.'

Adds that rents have stabilized or fallen and that will likely decline further as lease contracts end.

Yellen says at Reuters event that she still sees 'considerable strength' in the underlying drivers of the US economy and that the GDP figures are 'not concerning.'

New: Solar companies seek new U.S. tariffs on Asian imports.

Firms warn that China uses its neighbors to skirt existing levies, depressing prices and threatening U.S. investments.

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Yellen says “it is necessary & urgent for our international coalition to unlock the value of immobilized Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine’s continued resilience and reconstruction,” and that she will “continue intensive discussions” with G7 partners.

The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg nytimes.com/2024/04/24/sty…

Trump blames Biden for a potential TikTok ban and calls it 'election in interference.'

In 2020, Trump signed an executive order to ban TikTok from app stores, warning: 'The United States must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national security.'

Plus Keith Bradsher on how China engineers its export dominance nytimes.com/2024/04/19/bus…

The latest from the industrial policy front lines:

US solar investments backed by the Biden climate law are being scaled back as cheap panels and components from China drove prices down more than 50%.

The industry is lobbying hard for more tariffs >

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