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Volcker

American  
[vohl-ker] / ˈvoʊl kər /

noun

  1. Paul Adolph, 1927–2019, U.S. economist: Federal Reserve Board chairman 1979–87.


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Warsh is likely to face pushback to this approach, as he comes into his first testimony having none of the gravitas of Volcker or Greenspan, Spindel said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

Investors weren’t sure what to expect and believed Greenspan might be more flexible to the White House than Volcker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

In doing so, he said, it traded away the mystique that, under Greenspan and his predecessor Paul Volcker, had conveyed its own kind of authority.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

When then-Fed Chair Paul Volcker had to sharply raise rates in the 1980s to get inflation under control, it triggered a severe recession.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

This small group was occasionally joined by Secretary of State George Shultz and on some rare occasions by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus

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