Fed Can
cnbc.com 10/16/2009 — The enormous amounts of liquidity pumped into the U.S. financial system by the Federal Reserve are not inflationary "at the moment" but will become so at some point, Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman and a White House adviser, said on Thursday. ...

Volcker on Financial Reform
calculatedriskblog.com 9/24/2009 — Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker testifies in front of the House Financial Services Committee at 9 AM ET on Thursday about financial reform. For those interested, here is the webcast . Here is his prepared statement . A few excerpts: However well ...

Paul Volcker the Campaign Advisor
bigpicture.typepad.com 10/21/2008 — This morning's WSJ has a fascinating article about the relationship between former Fed Chair Paul Volcker and Presidential candidate Barrack Obama: "Mr. Volcker delivers gravitas and credibility to Sen. Obama, people in the Obama camp say, as ...

So whatever happened to Paul Volcker? (Dealscape - Washington Ways & Means)
thedeal.com 6/15/2009 — volcker,paul125x100.jpg As the details pile up about what Treasury will formally recommend on regulatory reform Wednesday, you do have to wonder what happened to Paul Volcker and his suggestion in February of a new kind of "Glass-Steagall-like" ...

Volcker Says Fed’s Authority Probably to Be Reviewed (Update1)
bloomberg.com 4/18/2009 — April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said Congress will probably review the authority granted to the Fed following emergency credit programs doubling the central bank’s balance sheet to $2.19 trillion. “I don’t think ...

Volcker Chafes at Panel Delay, Clashes With Summers (Update1)
bloomberg.com 2/8/2009 — Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Volcker has grown increasingly frustrated over delays in setting up the economic advisory group President Barack Obama picked the former Federal Reserve chairman to lead, people familiar with the matter said. Volcker, 81, ...

Paul Volcker On Charlie Rose (Video Broadcast Sep. 29-30)
dailybail.com 10/14/2009 — Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker (and currently marginalized White House ancillary economist) sat down for an expansive 2-hour interview with Charlie Rose a few weeks ago.  Volcker discussed the bailouts, the Fed, the recession, the economy, the anemic recovery and ...

Volcker sees crisis leading to global regulation: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
biz.yahoo.com 2/21/2009 — NEW YORK (AP) -- "Even the experts don't quite know what's going on." Speaking to a number of those experts Friday, Paul Volcker, a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, cited not only the lack of understanding of the global financial ...

Volcker vs. Kohn on Inflaton
calculatedriskblog.com 4/19/2009 — From Dow Jones: Heavyweights Kohn,Volcker Spar Over Inflation Goal Paul Volcker grilled [Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn] over the Fed's apparent effort to convey that it considers a roughly 2% inflation rate to be appropriate for the ...

Where’s Volcker? Part II
ritholtz.com 6/16/2009 — Back in April, we asked Where’s Volcker? — about the noticably absent Obama advisor and former Fed Chief who seemed to have been pushed aside by either Tim Geithner or Lawrence Summers (or both). Here it is, 3 months later, and the question ...

Arizona's budget: Stumped — The Economist: Full print edition 30 days ago
An intra-Republican row EARLIER this year Republicans seemed to be in the ascendant in Arizona, the state of Barry Goldwater, even as they struggled in much of the country. Not only had they retained control in both houses of the state legislature, ...

Health reform: Now or never? — The Economist: Full print edition 30 days ago
Efforts to speed health legislation hit some snags WILL the health bill making its way through Congress reach Barack Obama’s desk before the end of the year? In May he insisted: “If we don’t get it done this year, we’re not ...

Elections in New Jersey and Virginia: Lessons from a double defeat — The Economist: Full print edition 30 days ago
Barack Obama will find it hard to take much comfort from this year’s election day CREIGH DEEDS is a farm boy turned country lawyer from the Alleghenies, in the south-west of Virginia. On a chilly night before this week’s governors’ ...

Barack Obama and the “mini mid-terms”: The change he didn't seek — The Economist: Full print edition 30 days ago
This week’s results carry warnings for both parties: but the Democrats—and their leader—should worry more SO WAS it a referendum or wasn’t it, and if so on whom? On November 3rd (see article) the Republicans trounced the ...

The war in Afghanistan: Last chance in Kabul — The Economist: Full print edition 30 days ago
The election was a disaster. Hamid Karzai must reform quickly if he wants to save his country, and himself THE election is over and it was a charade. A fortnight ago, Western leaders pushed Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, into a second ...