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    Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979...
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    American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker in 2010 to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of...
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  • Paul Gustav Völckers (15 March 1891 – 25 January 1946) was a German General of the Infantry in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XXVII...
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    administration, when W. Michael Blumenthal resigned. New York Fed President Paul Volcker was chosen as his successor at the Fed. George William Miller was born...
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    becoming chair. He was also the Chief economist and chief-of-staff to Paul Volcker at the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board—the board was formed...
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  • before its practices were questioned in 2005. United Nations investigator Paul Volcker found that the Australian Wheat Board, and later AWB Limited, were not...
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    offices. President Jimmy Carter appointed former New York Fed President Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1979 and President Ronald Reagan...
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  • modern United States resembles a plutocracy though with democratic forms. Paul Volcker, a former chair of the Federal Reserve, also believed the U.S. to be...
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    The Paul Volcker Committee (Independent Inquiry Committee) was formed to investigate alleged corruption and fraud in the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme...
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    chairman Arthur Burns, incoming Treasury Secretary John Connally, and Paul Volcker, then Undersecretary for International Monetary Affairs and future Federal...
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    inflation bottomed at 5% in December 1976 before moving higher once again. Paul Volcker was chosen as Fed Chairman in 1979 in order to deal with the challenge...
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    Federal Reserve Chairs (left to right): Janet Yellen, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and Paul Volcker. Photo taken 1 May 2014, when Yellen was Chair....
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    actor Paul Verhoeven (disambiguation), several people Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), French poet Paul Volcker (1927–2019), American economist Paul Völckers (1891–1946)...
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  • presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, and Chair of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker. Chapter seven ("Neoliberalism Applied? The Transformation of Affordable...
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    [citation needed] Other founding members included Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, both later heads of the Federal Reserve System. [citation needed] The...
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    Archived from the original on April 4, 2023. Retrieved April 4, 2023. "John Paul II: Empire of the Spirit". Time. December 26, 1994. Archived from the original...
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  • late 1980s. The tight monetary policy of Federal Reserve's Chairman Paul Volcker and the expansionary fiscal policy of President Ronald Reagan's first...
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  • as a result of being blacklisted for [U.S. government] employment." Paul Volcker called the strike a "watershed" moment in the fight against inflation:...
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  • In 1991 Paul Volcker testified to Congress in support of the Bush Administration proposal to repeal Glass–Steagall Sections 20 and 32. Volcker rejected...
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  • financial instruments that concerned then-chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker in 1980. He argued that just as the exotic wagers survived the media...
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    Oil-for-Food program to the Mujahedin-e-Khalq. A report by UN investigator Paul Volcker released in October 2005 found that the Australian Wheat Board, later...
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    1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Greenspan as a successor to Paul Volcker, as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the...
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    United States President Jimmy Carter appointed as Federal Reserve Chief Paul Volcker, who made fighting inflation his primary objective, and who restricted...
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    oil deals". The United Nations (UN) had set up its own committee, the 'Paul Volcker Committee', to investigate alleged corruption in the Oil-for-Food program...
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    history of the Federal Reserve, focusing specifically on the tenure of Paul Volcker. Hafer, R. W. The Federal Reserve System: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood...
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  • Bergsten, Peter G. Peterson (Senior Chairman of the Blackstone Group), and Paul Volcker. In 1991, the family was presented with the Honor Award from the National...
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    Atlanta July 27, 1979 February 11, 1982 2 years, 199 days Carter Resigned Paul Volcker Philadelphia August 6, 1979 August 11, 1987 8 years, 5 days Carter Resigned...
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  • for the Keynesian consensus.[citation needed] Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker very sharply increased interest rates from 1979 to 1983 in what was called...
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  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Luce, Lord Carrington, Alexander Haig, Paul Volcker, Thomas Kean, George Shultz, and Walter Cronkite among many others. Members...
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    bank, or any major central bank, and the first Democrat to do so since Paul Volcker assumed that position in 1979 via President Jimmy Carter. She was sworn...
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