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

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

As may now be apparent, I disagree with my colleague Michael Sean Winters who wrote that James Earl Carter Jr. was a failed ...

President Joe Biden has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff across America in honor of former President Jimmy Carter ... his father's death, Carter joined the Navy Reserve and returned ...

Take, for example, the late President Jimmy Carter’s historic peace-accords meeting ... Path of Interest Rates and Inflation The Federal Reserve has lowered rates by one percentage point to a range of ...

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 ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's complicated legacy suffered from high inflation and interest rates. His nomination of Paul Volcker as chair of the Federal Reserve is credited for a long-term ...

And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.” The line fit well with the nation’s dour recessionary mood—though, to be fair, Carter’s selection of Paul Volcker at the Federal Reserve and his ...

Jimmy Carter lived longer than any other American ... Economically Carter endorsed the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates and thereby "squeeze out inflation." ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the ... He appointed Paul Volker, the Federal Reserve chairman whose policies would help the economy boom in the 1980s — after Carter ...

Jimmy Carter was the 39th US president ... In response, Carter appointed Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the US central bank established by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 ...