The standard of living of the average American has to decline,” he said. “I don't think you can escape  that.” These were the ...

His nomination of Paul Volcker as chair of the Federal Reserve is credited for a long-term decrease in inflation. Get Real-Time News and Alerts for Your Portfolio President Jimmy Carter ...

Stuart Eizenstat, a policy advisor to former President Jimmy Carter, discusses Carter's achievements and challenges during ...

Former President Jimmy Carter is widely acknowledged as a hardworking man who accomplished much after the presidency, but he ...

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The US would do well to heed past advice on public service reforms. Former Fed chair Paul Volcker headed a commission whose 1989 report needs to be dusted off by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy of DOGE.

Saying farewell to President Jimmy Carter can cause some to recall the challenges our country faced in the 70’s – and the challenges faced by Fed Chairman Paul Volcker. Today’s Fed seems driven to ...

Jimmy Carter was not a great president, much less the greatest.  But Carter was by no means the worst president and not the ...

I WAS blessed with two legendary mentors in nation-building. One was the late Paul Volcker, who I met in the early part of 2007 upon the recommendation of the Harvard Kennedy School; the other was the ...

"He chose Paul Volcker over the objection of all of us because Volcker said to him, 'Mr. President, I'm going to choke inflation out of the system,'" Eizenstat said. Volcker raised interest rates ...