“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 ...

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 ...

How can you tell that nobody of economic influence cares about what former federal reserve chairman Paul Volcker has to say anymore? Some say by the fact that the 30-year treasury yield is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I will tease you no longer. His name is Paul Volcker. He is the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. He is responsible – alone, for his job is independent of the administration, of any ...

Over lunch several years ago, former Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker spoke of enjoying fishing in Maine in the area around Pocomoonshine Lake. The area known as Downeast Maine lies ...

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 ...

Some of us remember when Fed Chairman Paul Volcker raised interest rates to 20% — a level unimaginable today. For the leveraged, it was devastating; but there were some benefits. Thirty-nine ...

From the award-winning opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal, the Journal Editorial Report sees columnists and members of the Journal Editorial Board debate the major economic, political and ...

The 2012 Global Financial Markets Forum (GFMF) will kick start with a keynote address by Paul Volcker, the Former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve System and economic advisor to President Barack ...