Appointing Paul Volcker was the top accomplishment of the Carter presidency, and the benefit of a more vigilant Fed continues ...

President Jimmy Carter appointed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979 specifically to address the soaring inflation rates of the late 1970s. This action contributed to ...

For Macquarie, the lessons of the Carter era are said to provide a roadmap for modern policymakers, emphasizing the need for ...

“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 ...

He sent this column with his thoughts about former President Jimmy Carter to The Oklahoman on Tuesday. My view of Jimmy ...

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 ...

Geoffrey Bell, who has died aged 85, was a globetrotting financial adviser and the founder of the Group of Thirty, an elite ...

When I was working on my biography of Alan Greenspan, I was influenced by this portrait of Paul Volcker, who led the Federal Reserve between 1979 and 1987, before Greenspan took over. I think that ...

The recession was orchestrated by the Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker, who had been appointed by Carter and then reappointed by Reagan. While Carter publicly distanced himself from Volcker’s ...

In death, as in life, former President Jimmy Carter can’t seem to get a fair shake, at least from the national political establishment based in Washington and the mainstream mass media. Carter is ...