# Professor Thomas Pugel comments on his former professor Janet Yellen's speech at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

1 Faculty News December 4, 2015 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/yellen-learning-the-games-politicians-play/2015/12/04/83bb492a-83ce-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html) -- "'Her speech there is the kind of thing she would talk about in class,' said [Tom Pugel](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-pugel), an economics professor at New York University who took Yellen’s course in macroeconomics when he was a young doctoral student at Harvard University. 'You’re still seeing someone who comes at this from a professorial point of view.'"

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