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Jun 27, 2024 · The staff and the Trustees of the IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board have released condolences on the death of Paul Volcker, inaugural Chairman of the IFRS Foundation (formerly IASC Foundation) Trustees, serving from 2000 until 2006.
Jul 5, 2024 · The World Jewish Congress mourns the passing of economist Paul Volker at the age of 92 in New York City. Mr. Volker served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve System from 1979 to 1987 under presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan.
7 hours ago · During that stretch, which extended into the early 1980s, US prices nearly doubled, prompting the Fed, then-led by Paul Volcker, to jack up interest rates to about 20 percent. In Germany, prices ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Their predecessors — notably Paul Volcker, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke and Mario Draghi — earned the respect of the monetary priesthood; they could debate with the experts and steer policies...
Jun 27, 2024 · Under Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, the prime lending rate exceeded 21% to help curb growth. Inflation expectations remained high when Volcker's tightening began.
Jul 5, 2024 · A detailed discussion of the issues involved is provided by Paul Tucker (2018), Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press).
Jun 20, 2024 · Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker ended the Fed's stop-go policy in 1979. He instead raised rates and kept them there to finally end inflation. That created the 1980 recession, but it thoroughly ended double-digit inflation, which hasn't been a threat since.
