The allegations of fraud in the oil-for-food programme are being investigated separately by a commission headed by Paul Volcker, a former head of America's Federal Reserve.
Nearly half a century later, Paul Volcker in 1981-82 put the country into a deep recession with high interest rates to curb inflationary expectations that were out of hand and destroying our competitiveness.
Paul Volcker fires a warning shot against this risky approach in a New York Times column.
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Paul Volcker, a former chairman of America's Federal Reserve, is leading a UN-sponsored investigation into the affair.
The provision, named after Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was first unveiled by Barack Obama in January.
But members such as Paul Volcker, a former Fed chairman, want to see a balance struck between financial innovation and economic stability.
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Swiss bankers have already empowered Paul Volcker, a former chairman of America's Federal Reserve, to waive Swiss secrecy laws in banks in order to scrutinise old accounts.
It was produced at the request of the commission headed by Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, on the so-called dormant accounts in Swiss banks.
On November 26th he said Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman, would head his new Economic Recovery Advisory Board and Austan Goolsbee, his longest-serving economic adviser, would be its staff director.
As part of the deal, Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the United States' Federal Reserve, has been working with a team of auditors to uncover dormant wartime accounts belonging to Holocaust victims.
Last week the Paul Volcker, a few current members Federal Reserve, and most of our trading partners at the G20 meeting warned Helicopter Ben that QE2 was too risky for both the U.S. and global economies.
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As Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, likes to point out, the entire banking system of many an emerging country is no bigger than a typical regional bank in the United States (the sort now considered too small for global financial markets, and merging furiously).
When the controls were removed the excess supply of money fueled inflation with a vengeance and Paul Volcker was left to clean up the mess.
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This action by the Fed is the complete inverse to thirty years ago when Paul Volcker was fighting a different battle and swore to fight inflation, which was then the time to buy bonds.
President-elect Obama has drawn one of the veterans of many economic battles, former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, to head a new Economic Recovery Advisory Board, designed to give private sector advice to the new administration.
Again, I think this is a -- as Austan has said, as the President has said, as Paul Volcker has said -- it's a common-sense proposal to ensure the stability of the financial system.
Former US Secretary of State George Shultz and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker are also advocates for a new policy decriminalising and regulating drugs.
Economic growth remains subpar, with former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker suggesting GDP is stuck in a 2% trend.
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Faced with raging inflation and a declining dollar, President Carter appointed Paul Volcker chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Just after these bond transactions, the yield chart for U.S Treasuries (and all bonds) peaked and crossed a years-long uptrend line to the downside, thanks to the wise decision-making of a Fed boss who inspired confidence, Paul Volcker.
The president dubbed his proposals on limiting bank risk the Volcker rule - after Paul Volcker, one of his economic advisors and a former chairman of the Federal Reserve central bank.
So I've already started by asking Paul Volcker and my Economic Recovery Board to do a thorough review of how to simplify our tax code, and to report back to me by the end of this year.
After a long U.N. career, Riza had resigned in disgrace just a few months earlier, after disclosures by Paul Volcker's Oil-for-Food inquiry that Riza, in violation of his own orders to staff, had overseen the shredding of three years worth of U.N. executive suite documents of "potential relevance" to the investigation.
Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker is the author of this plan, and in a letter to the editor in last week's Wall Street Journal, former Treasury secretaries W. Michael Blumenthal, Nicholas Brady, Paul O'Neill, George Shultz and John Snow lent their support.
He has appointed a four-member panel, including former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, to decide how much more revenue should be shared.
Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve Board and a famous worrier, says that he can't recall in his career a touchier global economic situation.
So it seems to me that Summers should be demonstrating substantially more humility here on the subject of encouraging financial innovation, when countries which constrained it did pretty well during the crisis compared to those with a deregulatory philosophy and when very wise minds like Paul Volcker are credibly arguing that financial innovation almost never adds real economic value.
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And senior Democratic officials, including Paul Volcker and Nancy Pelosi, have been floating trial balloons about bringing a broad-based Value Added Tax to the United States.
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