Saturday, January 22

Photo of the Day: Paul Volcker Puffing Away Circa 1980

From Floyd Norris' optimistic piece on the implementation of the Volcker Rule, which aims to ban proprietary trading at systemically important financial institutions (aka Too Big Too Fail) in today's NY Times.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Volcker testifying
before the U.S. House Banking Committee, 1980

You might be smoking like a chimney too if you had to explain to Congress how you were going to avoid causing massive unemployment (and cost pols their re-election) while slaying double digit inflation.

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