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...the high interest rates of the early 1980s that were "artificially" engineered by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.Fortunately, this reform effectively phases out in a few years. By 2016, the alternative discount rate is scheduled...
...making risky proprietary trades and swaps, but to attack Paul Volcker personally. Volcker, 84, is an old-school banker...whom he depicted as an old duffer out of his depth."Paul Volcker, by his own admission, has said he doesn't understand...
WASHINGTON -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Arthur Andersen's white knight in waiting, suggested Monday that it would take "miracles" to turn around the embattled accounting...
...AP) -- Arthur Andersen was hit with another wave of client defections, even as former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker was offering a sweeping reform plan to try to save the company. The mounting loss of clients has further complicated...
...Reserve: Aug. 11, 1987: Greenspan takes over at the Fed after being picked by President Ronald Reagan to succeed Paul Volcker. He will be renominated by presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Oct. 19, 1987...
...generals of the United States, seven of them former directors of the Congressional Budget Office and one of them - Paul Volcker - the former chairman of the Federal Reserve System and now an adviser to President Obama. Both political parties are...
...senator George Mitchell of Maine. The other members were Yale President Richard Levin, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and journalist-commentator George Will. Two Washington area groups, one in the District of Columbia and one in Northern...
...threatening the nation's future will become irresistible. Whether we like it or not, we have been warned. On Tuesday, Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told a New York audience that the time is coming when new taxes...
...that will be disclosed in the next few days. Bankruptcy is a last resort, he said. Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker had earlier urged top management to step aside so he could install and head an independent board in a last-ditch plan...
...Republican presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, would lack the iron-willed independence needed to fill the shoes of Paul Volcker, who conquered a decade-long bout of double-digit inflation by driving up interest rates to levels not seen since...