It no longer takes hundreds of millions to be one of the wealthiest people in the president’s cabinet. Just ask Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who is worth an estimated $20 million—a sum that would have qualified as merely well-off on Trump’s team but looks downright rich among Biden’s bunch. The 74-year-old built up her small fortune over time, through years in academia and government, cashing in most clearly after she left her position as Fed chair in 2018 and started giving speeches in corporate America.

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