Yellen: The Musical

When President-elect Joe Biden announced Janet Yellen as his choice for Treasury Secretary, he suggested that her historic nomination deserved the Hamilton treatment. “You might have to ask Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the musical about the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton, to write another musical about the first woman Secretary of the Treasury, Yellen,” Biden said. “That’s what I’m working on.” Well, Miranda took on Biden’s challenge and released an adaptation of the song “Alexander Hamilton” on the December 2 broadcast of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.