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 ...

The Volcker Rule, the part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, was designed to curb the ability of banks to make risky bets with their own money. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...