Which brings us to James Grant’s recent review of Paul Volcker’s new book, Keeping At It. Grant sees Volcker as a hero, as someone who restrained inflation by somehow tightening credit.

Paul Volcker died three years ago at age 92. And David Kestenbaum from our Planet Money podcast has more on Volcker's costly-but-ultimately-successful fight to tame inflation.

Volcker is like the man in a pure white suit, walking through a slum. The big question, though, is why did the 74-year-old Volcker take the job?

Paul Volcker, who as Federal Reserve chairman in the early 1980s elevated interest rates to historic highs and triggered a recession as the price of quashing double-digit inflation, has died ...

If, meanwhile, they think Tim Geithner is incapable of selling it and thus need Volcker to do it, then Geithner is a lame duck and should be replaced.

A towering 6 feet, 7 inches tall, Volcker played basketball for Teaneck High School. The mayor says it was one area where he did not excel.

To read William L. Silber’s engaging biography of Paul Volcker in the fall of 2012 is to be reminded of a time, not so long ago, when a cadre of public servants, respected for their knowledge ...

To avoid repeating the macroeconomic mistakes of the past 40 years, progressives must reckon with Volcker’s tremendous—and harmful—influence.

Two words best sum up how the world has changed in the four decades since Paul Volcker took charge of the Federal Reserve: inflation and independence. He died over the weekend.

Paul Volcker’s battle against inflation pushed interest rates up to 20% Getting a loan in the early 1980s was a lot more expensive than today. That was the point.

Paul Volcker — the 6-foot-7, cigar-chomping economist who quashed inflation as Federal Reserve chairman in the 1980s with a controversial, tough-medicine approach — died Sunday after being ...

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the closest thing to a rock star economist this country has seen, died Monday at 92, NPR has confirmed. He reportedly had prostate cancer.