Once again, Paul Volcker never was simply because monetarism never was nor can it be.

Paul Volcker died three years ago at age 92. And David Kestenbaum from our Planet Money podcast has more on Volcker's costly-but-ultimately-successful fight to tame inflation.

Paul Volcker is back in the limelight after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell approvingly cited his interest rate-hiking flurry to tame inflation back in the 1970s.

Paul Volcker was an intellectual giant, and I had a front row seat to understanding his genius while working with and for him early in his career.

People Paul Volcker: the banking ace who crushed inflation Paul Volcker, who died last week aged 92, was an inspirational figure whose controversial policies helped inaugurate the modern era.

Paul Volcker administered the tough medicine when the American economy badly needed it. It was 1980, and the inflation rate had passed 14 percent. OPEC, a cartel of foreign oil producers, had ...

History has two components. One, the men/women who are its face; and two, the men/women who make it. An example of a historical face is, of course, Martin Luther King Jr., but the man who made the ...