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About Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairperson of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the "Volcker shock". He previously served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1975 to 1979.
Everything about Paul Volcker →- Occupation
- economist, banker, politician
- Position held
- Chair of the Federal Reserve, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 5, 1927
- Died
- December 8, 2019