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Paul A. Volcker served two terms as Federal Reserve chairman under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. While some of Volcker's policies during that time, including rapid increases in interest rates, were considered unpopular, he is credited with helping tame the United States' inflation problems of the 1970s.
Following his leadership role in the Fed, Volcker had been tapped in 2004 to research possible corruption in the United Nations Oil for Food Program. Volcker's latest appointment comes as chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President-elect Barack Obama.
Born in 1927 in Cape May, N.J., Volcker earned a bachelor's degree from Princet...
Following his leadership role in the Fed, Volcker had been tapped in 2004 to research possible corruption in the United Nations Oil for Food Program. Volcker's latest appointment comes as chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President-elect Barack Obama.
Born in 1927 in Cape May, N.J., Volcker earned a bachelor's degree from Princet...
Paul A. Volcker served two terms as Federal Reserve chairman under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. While some of Volcker's policies during that time, including rapid increases in interest rates, were considered unpopular, he is credited with helping tame the United States' inflation problems of the 1970s.
Following his leadership role in the Fed, Volcker had been tapped in 2004 to research possible corruption in the United Nations Oil for Food Program. Volcker's latest appointment comes as chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President-elect Barack Obama.
Born in 1927 in Cape May, N.J., Volcker earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton and a master's from the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration. Before leading the Federal Reserve, he served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Following his leadership role in the Fed, Volcker had been tapped in 2004 to research possible corruption in the United Nations Oil for Food Program. Volcker's latest appointment comes as chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President-elect Barack Obama.
Born in 1927 in Cape May, N.J., Volcker earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton and a master's from the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration. Before leading the Federal Reserve, he served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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JPMorgan's $2-billion loss a gift to Volcker rule proponents
NEW YORK – JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s stunning $2-billion loss serves as a “wonderful poster boy for the Volcker rule,” a leading securities law expert said. “Banks that are too big to fail can’t be allowed to lose their...
Tags: Federal Reserve, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jamie Dimon, Finance, Goldman Sachs
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Chase's big loss: What's the right safeguard?
This week JPMorgan Chase disclosed that bumbling by its traders caused $2 billion in losses in about six weeks, with potentially more to come. But the bank's chief executive, James Dimon, said Thursday that the company still expects to earn more than...
Tags: Breastfeeding, Companies and Corporations, Federal Reserve, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Finance
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Hiltzik: Will JPMorgan's Dimon now shut up about the Volcker Rule?
It's a measure of how successful Wall Street has been at eviscerating the so-called Volcker Rule that in its current guise it would not have prevented JPMorgan Chase from making the derivatives trades that produced the stunning $2-billion trading loss...
Tags: JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jamie Dimon, Dick Durbin
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White House says the war is working – the war on drugs
Top of the TicketThe White House is asking for over $26 billion in 2012 to fight illegal drug use, world leaders say it won't help... -
The war on 'the war on drugs' [The conversation]
Opinion L.A.With the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's "War on Drugs" Friday, many people seem to agree that the battle against “America’s public enemy No. 1” has failed. After the Global Commission on Drug Policy released its June... -
Wall Street Roundup: Elizabeth Warren takes on banks. Paul Volcker's lobbying.
Money & CompanyPlodding along. The economy grew in the third quarter, but not enough to provide much confidence in the current economic recovery. Warren takes on banks. Elizabeth Warren, the woman charged with setting up the new consumer regulatory agency, said in...... -
Wall Street Roundup: More Fed doubting. Is that Jon Stewart?
Money & CompanyNew jobs aren't enough. 151,000 new jobs were created in October, according to new Labor Department figures, but it was not enough to move the national unemployment rate, or the markets. More Fed doubting. Despite the market's excitement about the...... -
Bernanke downplays inflation concerns tied to Middle East turmoil and Federal Reserve actions
Money & CompanyFederal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Tuesday that a sustained rise in prices for oil and other commodities would threaten the economic recovery, but that even with the turmoil in the Middle East he did not expect inflation problems...... -
An essential ‘Inside' look
Brand X“Inside Job” (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD, $28.95; Blu-ray, $34.95) Charles Ferguson's infuriating, provocative “Inside Job” comes to home video hot on the heels of winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. When... -
Dodd-Frank overhaul not hurting Goldman yet
Money & CompanyA provision in last year’s financial reform bill that was supposed to hurt Wall Street banks does not yet appear to be hitting the firm that was viewed as its main target, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The so-called Volcker rule...... -
Ben Bernanke defends Fed actions and downplays concerns about inflation at first news conference [Updated]
Money & CompanyAt a historic news conference Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke defended the central bank's unprecedented and controversial actions to stabilize and revive the economy and tried to deflect concerns that inflation could derail the... -
Pimco's Bill Gross on modern finance: The 'unmistakable odor of Mammon'
Money & CompanyPimco bond guru Bill Gross uses his monthly website column to say whatever he wants about markets, the economy and government policy, among other things. That’s the privilege you can grant yourself after you’ve built a $1.2-trillion money management...
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