The world might love to hate financiers, but the worlds of hedge funds, venture capital, and central banking can be filled ...

President Jimmy Carter kept the national debt down, saw solid job creation, handled inflation and placed the U.S. on a course ...

Carter's presidency was marred by high inflation and economic turmoil. His appointment of Paul Volcker helped curb inflation, ...

"He chose Paul Volcker over the objection of all of us because Volcker said to him, 'Mr. President, I'm going to choke inflation out of the system,'" Eizenstat said. Volcker raised interest rates ...

The Democratic president led an ambitious agenda to replace New Deal guarantees of security and fairness with bogus models of "perfect competition." ...

A pious Sunday school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he came to Washington to reestablish ...

The GOP wished to have a larger share paid by debt, to keep pressure off tax increases ... before the Civil War Carter called in Paul Volcker to head the Federal Reserve. Volcker snuffed out ...

Carter's engineering background with numbers led him to appoint Paul Volcker as Federal Reserve chair. Bert Lance, Carter's friend, had said that if Carter appointed Volcker that Carter ...

Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at the age of 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia, the Carter Center said. Carter served one term as the 37th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 ...

He appointed Paul Volcker to tame inflation ... But the one thing to keep in mind with that, it was really the fault of the Fed. It wasn't the fault of Carter per se. I mean, he did have the ...