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Biography

Name: Paul Volcker
Birth Date: September 5, 1927
Place of Birth: Cape May, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: government official, banker

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Biography of Paul Volcker
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As chairman of the Federal Reserve Board during one of the most turbulent periods in U.S. monetary history, Paul Volcker (born 1927) helped lower double-digit inflation rates in the early 1980s and ushered in an era of financial deregulation and...


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Paul Adolph Volcker (born September 5, 1927 in Cape May, New Jersey), is best-known as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve ("The Fed") under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987). if...


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U.N. to get oil-for-food program files
12/23/2006: 308 words, approx. 1 pages
Documents from the oil-for-food corruption investigation will be legally transferred to the United Nations on Jan. 1 and made available to governments trying to prosecute alleged wrongdoers, the U.N. said Friday.The voluminous archive was complied by the Independent Inquiry Committee, led by former Federal Reserve...
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Frist withdraws name from World Bank
5/29/2007: 292 words, approx. 1 pages
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has withdrawn his name from consideration for World Bank president, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Monday.Frist, a Tennessee Republican, served two terms in the U.S. Senate, where he was a close ally to...
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Briton arrested in oil-for-food scandal
6/15/2007: 325 words, approx. 1 pages
A British oil trader was arrested Thursday on U.S. charges of paying bribes to Saddam Hussein as part of the discredited U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq.Metropolitan Police said John Irving, 52, was detained in central London on a U.S. extradition warrant. He appeared at the...
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6 AWB execs face court over Iraq bribes
12/21/2007: 339 words, approx. 1 pages
Six former executives of wheat exporter AWB Ltd. are facing civil trial over millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, the latest round in a scandal surrounding the U.N.'s now discredited oil-for-food program.On Friday, a newspaper called for more investigation into government...
 


 

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