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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

At the time, Powell invoked former Fed Chair Paul Volcker, who hiked rates massively in the late 1970s to contain high inflation. Powell's hawkish tone at Jackson Hole in 2022 underscored the Fed ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...