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, ...

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 A. Volcker ’49, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, died last month at the age of 92. Volcker served under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, and led the effort to suppress ...

Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve known for his battles against inflation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has died. He was 92. He passed away at his home in New York Sunday ...

WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - The European debt crisis poses a big test for the euro currency and the economies hit by the problems face a long, difficult road to recovery, former U.S. Federal ...

Paul Volcker, who as Federal Reserve chairman in the early 1980s elevated interest rates to historic highs and triggered a recession as the price of quashing double-digit inflation, has died, ...