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Janet Yellen's triple mandate: jobs, inflation, and Wall Street

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Janet Yellen, President Obama’s choice to head the Federal Reserve, has said she’s more concerned with unemployment than inflation and also plans to continue finish the task of re-regulating the banking industry started by current head Ben Bernanke. However, some officials who have watched Yellen during her three years as Fed vice chairman think she will be bolder in her prescriptions than Bernake or the Obama administration has been.