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The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.

Paul Volcker has devoted his lifes work to public service and the critical importance of open, disciplined and efficient government. As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987) he literally rescued the American economy from destroying itself, summoning the courage to take radical and controversial steps to slay the inflation dragon. And whenever the going got really toughthe financial crash of 2008, the need to reform banking, the oil for food UN scandal, the turmoil in Switzerland over theft of Holocaust victims, cheating in Major League BaseballUS presidents and other leaders said to get Volcker in here to help me work this thing through.
Told with wit, humor, and down-to-earth erudition, Volckers memoir brings...

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To Anke,
who more than anyone deserves the credit for this wise old parrots ability to produce a memoir at age ninety.

Just one small reflection of a love story too often left untold.

September 5, 1927Paul A. Volcker Jr. born in Cape May, New Jersey.
1930Volcker family moves to Teaneck, New Jersey, where Paul Sr. becomes town manager for twenty years.
July 1944International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are created.
1949Volcker graduates from Princeton with highest honors for senior thesis on the Federal Reserve.
1951Volcker leaves Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Public Administration after passing the general exam for his PhD.
March 3, 1951Treasury-Fed Accord reestablishes the Federal Reserves independence from the Treasury.
April 2, 1951William McChesney Martin becomes Federal Reserve Board chairman.
19511952Volcker is Rotary fellow at the London School of Economics.
1952Volcker joins New York Fed as junior economist, moves to Brooklyn Heights, New York, close to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
September 11, 1954Volcker marries Barbara Marie Bahnson in Jersey City, New Jersey.
August 20, 1955Janice Louise Volcker born.
1957Volcker moves to Plainfield, New Jersey, and joins Chase as a research economist.
May 10, 1958James Paul Volcker born.
January 8, 1962Volcker joins Treasury as director of the new Office of Financial Analysis under Robert Roosa and Secretary Douglas Dillon.
November 18, 1963Volcker named to succeed J. Dewey Daane as Treasurys deputy under secretary of monetary affairs.
November 22, 1963Kennedy assassinated, Lyndon Johnson becomes president.
December 31, 1964Roosa leaves Treasury to join Brown Brothers.
April 1, 1965Fowler succeeds Dillon as Treasury secretary.
October 6, 1965Johnson clashes with Federal Reserve chairman Martin at White House, calls for delay in raising interest rates.
November 1965Volcker joins Chase as director of forward planning and moves to Montclair, New Jersey.
January 20, 1969President Richard Nixon inaugurated.
January 22, 1969Volcker attends meeting with Nixon, David Kennedy, and Charls Walker in the Oval Office. Volcker officially nominated as Treasury under secretary for monetary affairs, the best job in the world.
February 1, 1970Arthur Burns replaces Martin as chairman.
February 11, 1971John Connally sworn in as Treasury secretary.
May 28, 1971Connallys international debut at banking conference in Munich, Germany.
August 15, 1971Nixon closes gold window, ending official convertibility of the dollar into gold at $35 per ounce, as part of his new economic policy.
September 15, 1971Connally tells Group of Ten meeting in London that the United States wants a $13 billion swing in its balance of international payments.
November 30, 1971Group of Ten meeting in Rome.
December 14, 1971Nixon agrees with Frances Georges Pompidou in the Azores to devalue dollar and revise exchange rates without restoring convertibility of the dollar into gold.
December 18, 1971Group of Ten reaches multilateral Smithsonian Agreement on exchange rates; dollar devalued and official gold price rises to $38 an ounce.
May 16, 1972Nixon names George Shultz to succeed Connally.
June 23, 1972Committee of Twenty created to address international monetary reform.
February 12, 1973Dollar depreciated by about 10 percent relative to other major currencies; official gold price changes to $42.22 an ounce.
March 9, 1973Group of Ten meeting in Paris ends with acceptance of temporary float.
September 1973Effort to negotiate new monetary system, led by Volcker, abandoned.
April 8, 1974Volcker resigns and says hell leave Treasury after Committee of Twenty meeting in June.
August 9, 1974Nixon resigns, Gerald Ford becomes president.
September 11, 1974Volcker named senior fellow of the Woodrow Wilson School.
August 1, 1975Volcker becomes New York Federal Reserve Bank president.
December 27, 1977President Carter nominates G. William Miller to replace Arthur Burns at Fed.
July 15, 1979Carters malaise speech.
July 19, 1979Carter names Miller to replace Michael Blumenthal as Treasury secretary.
August 6, 1979Volcker replaces Miller at Fed; Miller becomes Treasury secretary.
August 16, 1979Board raises discount rate to 10.5 percent from 10 percent.
September 18, 1979Board raises discount rate to 11 percent, but three of the seven members dissent: Charles Partee, Nancy Teeters, Emmett Rice. Gold and silver surge in wild speculative trading.
October 2, 1979Volcker leaves IMF meeting early, flies back to DC.
October 6, 1979Meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to agree to new policy package, unveiled at 6 p.m. press conference. Plan includes increase in discount rate to 12 percent, new reserve requirements, and a new focus on controlling the money supply instead of short-term interest rates.
March 14, 1980
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