Paul A. Volcker was chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1979 to 1987 and was credited with a leading role in ending a period of high and rising inflation and ...

It is fitting that the nation should note with respect and appreciation the manifold achievements of Paul A. Volcker. Volcker, who died last Sunday at age 92, is most well known, and most highly ...

The Fed’s tight money policy has echoed the era of Paul Volcker, who served as Fed chair from 1979 to 1987 and faced a similar task in defeating inflation. But Volcker’s tenure at the Fed isn ...

Named after Paul Volcker, the Federal Reserve Chairman who attacked inflation in the 1980s, the so-called "Volcker rule" aimed to restrict banks from speculative trading. The Volcker rule is named ...

“I don’t think you can escape that.” These were the words of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker as he testified before Congress in October 1979. Inflation was 13%. Volcker’s ...

As formulated by former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, the Volcker rule is based on three beliefs: that proprietary trading is highly risky; that its economic benefits, beyond those ...

If anyone came to epitomise the power of the independent central banker before the phenomenon became fashionable it was Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who has died aged 92 ...

The Volcker Rule is on track to be gutted, and workers should worry Loosening banking regulations on risky trading would expose the most vulnerable workers in the U.S. economy to hazards that are ...

The tributes to President Jimmy Carter give him maximum credit for appointing Paul Volcker chair of the Federal Reserve, in August 1979. The horrendous stagflation of the period—three straight ...

Sebastian Mallaby, CFR’s Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists are shaping the future ...

In 1979, Carter nominated Paul Volcker, then the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to chair the Federal Reserve. Volcker hawkishly shaped monetary policy by hiking the federal ...