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A tribute to Paul Volcker from Down Under

Initiative Matters: The man who tamed US inflation at the cost of many jobs.

Bryce Wilkinson
Mon, 16 Dec 2019

A giant is dead. Paul Volcker died this week, aged 92. At 6ft 7in, he was, according to the New York Times obituary, one inch too tall for military service.

But he is best known as the man who tamed US inflation. When President Jimmy Carter put in him in charge of the US Federal Reserve Bank in

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Bryce Wilkinson
Mon, 16 Dec 2019
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