President Jimmy Carter, who died at his home on Sunday ... In 1979, Carter nominated Paul Volcker, then the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to chair the Federal Reserve.

The tributes to President Jimmy Carter give him maximum credit for appointing Paul Volcker chair of the Federal Reserve, in August 1979. The horrendous stagflation of the period—three straight ...

One need not overstate the claims of Jimmy Carter’s supposed post-presidential ... backhanded credit for appointing inflation-fighter Paul Volcker to lead the Federal Reserve and then not ...

Thursday, Jan. 9, was a day of mourning for President Jimmy Carter ... expectations had also risen markedly. When Carter appointed Paul Volcker as head of the Federal Reserve Board (Volcker ...

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter died on Sunday at age ... In late July, 1979, Mr. Carter nominated Paul Volcker, then the hawkish president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to head ...

By this measure, Jimmy Carter was among the most consequential ... (OSV News/Reuters/Mario Anzuoni) For Eizenstat, the appointment of Paul Volcker to lead the Federal Reserve best embodied ...

Jimmy Carter left office in 1981 one of the least ... Carter did the one thing that was certain to work. He appointed Paul Volcker, a known hard moneyman, as chairman of the Federal Reserve ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's complicated legacy suffered from high inflation and interest rates. His nomination of Paul Volcker as chair of the Federal Reserve is credited for a long-term ...