President Jimmy Carter, who died at his home on Sunday ... disastrous for his 1980 reelection bid. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, inflation neared 6% in 1976 before Carter ...

The man was Jimmy Carter, and he would go on to win ... Carter appointed inflation hawk Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Carter’s decision to tackle inflation probably cost ...

Jimmy Carter revivalists argue that his legislative accomplishments reveal a prolific presidency, and his failures the ...

Everybody knows that Jimmy Carter was America’s last truly liberal ... the decadelong Great Inflation was Paul Volcker, chair of the Federal Reserve Board — and a Carter appointee.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of ... the Civil War Carter called in Paul Volcker to head the Federal Reserve. Volcker snuffed out inflation through the emergency ...

Carter’s resilience — helping build a house in 2019 after getting 14 stitches around his eye, teaching Sunday school after fracturing his pelvis — accounted for some of the new reverence. So did the ...

Appointing Paul Volcker was the top accomplishment of the Carter presidency, and the benefit of a more vigilant Fed continues ...

Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 general election by ... of the Bretton Woods dollar standard under Richard Nixon. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns accommodated Nixon’s desire for easy money ...

One need not overstate the claims of Jimmy Carter’s supposed post-presidential ... inflation-fighter Paul Volcker to lead the Federal Reserve and then not fighting Volcker’s bitter but ...

Former President Jimmy Carter’s state ... National Guard and U.S. Armed Forces Reserve units. Public viewings will take place for several days at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta ...

The Federal Reserve did the crime ... Relationship with Congress: Congress did not love Jimmy Carter, but the fact that he got so much legislation passed — legislation that could never have ...