Volcker

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When President Ronald Reagan nominated Greenspan to head the Fed in 1987, skeptics suggested the economic consultant-turned-White House aide wouldn’t be able to fill the shoes of his predecessor, Paul Volcker.

From Barron's

Volcker famously managed to break the back of high inflation with double-digit interest rates in the early 1980s.

From Barron's

The justly celebrated Paul Volcker, central banking hero and Fed chairman from 1979 to 1987, had an M.A. in political economy, but no Ph.D.

From The Wall Street Journal

Carter tapped Paul Volcker, who raised rates high enough to break inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Summers informed Darling how U.S. regulators might incorporate Volcker’s recommendations into what became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Consumer Protection Act of July 2010 and sensed, the note reported, “more room for regulatory discretion than one might imagine.”

From The Wall Street Journal