In an about-turn from one of the staunchest defenders of free trade and globalisation on the left, the former European trade commissioner also made the argument for greater government control and economic intervention and said he believed the UK needed to develop a "modern industrial policy".
Yellen's appointment was widely seen as a signal that the QE programme was unlikely to be cut back in the short term, as she has been one of its staunchest supporters.
The corollary was that the Ulster Unionists would step down in other areas where their candidate is the staunchest pro-Agreement man in the field.
Most of her supporters came from the poor north and north-east, and her staunchest backers in the more developed south were government employees.
Now, ironically, as discussion focuses on how to reform Dayton, the Bosnian Serbs are its staunchest defenders.
He is a plain man from the South Dakota prairie; his staunchest admirers concede that he is not especially clever or charismatic.
But, and this matters, Mr Obama's coalition does include lots of whites, notably educated white women who are some of his staunchest supporters.But leaving race to one side, the President Obama of 2012 no longer identifies those who would divide America as his enemy.
This has perplexed some of the AU'S staunchest supporters.
He took on Shizuka Kamei, one of the staunchest opponents of Mr Koizumi within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and lost.While many locals, especially the smirking corporate old-guard, seem already to have judged Mr Horie and condemned him, he still has support.
Their staunchest Palestinian opponent, Hamas, which is still on paper sworn to eliminate the Jewish state, is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Egypt's new head of state, Muhammad Morsi, belongs.
France, one of the staunchest opponents of unbundling, is taking over the EU presidency in July.
