On a snowy winter afternoon back in 2013, I trudged up to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. headquarters on 17th Street in Washington to be among the first to behold the Volcker Rule, one of the ...

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 ...

Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who broke the back of U.S. inflation in the 1980s and three decades later led President Barack Obama’s bid to rein in the investment risk-taking of ...