Let Me Just Say That Janet Yellen Is Now Clearly By Far the Best Technocratic Choice for Fed Chair of Those on the Short List

I.e., I would prefer someone who would make a regime change a la Takahashi, Chamberlain, FDR, Abe--cough, Christina Romer, cough--but that is not in the cards:

BREAKING, via @WSJ: Lawrence Summers has withdrawn his name for the job of Federal Reserve chairman

— felix salmon (@felixsalmon) September 15, 2013