According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that came out on Monday, just 14 percent of Americans know who Janet Yellen is and have an opinion about her, good or bad.
The rest of us don’t know, or aren’t sure, whether she’s the most powerful person in the global economy.
So … I quit.
(Just kidding.)
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