The Daily Princetonian spoke to former chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker '49 following a panel discussion in which he participated, titled "Are financial institutions too big or too big to ...

As banks step away from proprietary trading to comply with regulations, many have criticized the rules for drying up liquidity. Paul Volcker, who helped shaped many of these regulations, says the ...

When the 91-year-old economist decries the role private interests have played in eroding sound money and good government, he offers plenty of firsthand evidence. Volcker, who is responsible for ...

White House advisor Paul Volcker sounded hopeful Tuesday about the possibility of meaningful financial regulatory reform passing this year. “I do think we have the promising possibility of getting ...

At Barack Obama’s news conference this morning, he declared: “At this defining moment for our nation, the old ways of thinking and acting just won’t do. We are called to seek fresh thinking and bold ...

One of his big concerns was to change the expectations, and hence the actions, of people who believed prices would continue to rise rapidly. “We are dealing with an inflationary momentum, and patterns ...

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Paul Volcker's leadership of the Federal Reserve was enormously consequential. The former chairman - who died Sunday in New York at the age of 92, according to the New York Times - bequeathed to his ...

The Trump administration has claimed that the shock of tariffs will soon wear off and usher in an era of American prosperity. Economists warn that not all shocks have such endings. One that comes to ...

Paul Volcker, who helped shape U.S. economic policy for more than six decades, most notably by leading the Federal Reserve’s brute-force campaign to subdue inflation in the late 1970s and early ’80s, ...

If the US Federal Reserve wishes to avoid a return to stagflation, it must recognize the huge gulf between the level of real interest rates under former Fed Chair Paul Volcker and the current ...