Peter Gratton, M.A.P.P., Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at ...

I’d say more so than the Volcker shock - not necessarily economically ... or is the US regime more stable? For example Paul Krugman and Nathan Tankus say it’s a Lehman moment, suggesting ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of pulling up sulfide deposits. What would soon become unclear, however, was why ...

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It was a combination of high inflation and high unemployment that led former Fed Chair Paul Volcker in the late 1970s and early 1980s to put the priority on inflation control with punishing ...

Paul Heideman I’m skeptical. We’re thinking about a massive reorientation of the American political economy. It’s helpful to think back to something like the Volcker shock, when the Federal Reserve ...

It wasn’t until Fed Chair Paul Volcker came into the picture in 1979 that officials rapidly hiked interest rates to break the cycle. In periods of stagflation, though, the Fed’s job is never easy.

The analogy I think is really interesting to look back to is what Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker did in the 1980s where, I think, there was very clear communication of what the problem was that ...

In 1981, it was a time when Paul Volcker, the chair of the Federal Reserve System (Fed), raised the benchmark interest rate to as much as 20% to control inflation. The current situation is ...

That’s when Paul Volcker picked inflation and slammed rates so high it triggered a recession. This time, Jerome Powell is boxed in. He missed inflation in 2021, calling it “transitory.” That same word ...

A new monetary regime was about to shake the system. Paul Volcker took charge of the Fed in 1979, 4 and he wasn't there to make friends. Interest rates skyrocketed to break inflation's back ...