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Donald Trump said Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen has done a "serviceable job." | AP Photo Trump hints Yellen would be out as Fed chair

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen might want to start searching for another job if Donald Trump is elected president, if the Republican front-runner's comments in a recent interview are any indication.

“I think she’s done a serviceable job,” Trump told Fortune in an article published Tuesday evening. “I don’t want to comment on reappointment, but I would be more inclined to put other people in.”

While suggesting that he favored the monetary policy advanced by Yellen at the Federal Reserve, namely the continued low interest rates, Trump said that "[t]here are lots of good things that could be done that aren’t being done, amazingly.”

He did not specify any examples.

“People think the Fed should be raising interest rates,” Trump said in the interview. “If rates are 3 percent or 4 percent or whatever, you start adding that kind of number to an already reasonably crippled economy in terms of what we produce, that number is a very scary number.”