--- title: "3 Paul A. Volcker Quotes - Famous Economist" description: "American economist (1927-2019)... | Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 t..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/paul-a-volcker-82748_accept_by-the-time-i-became-chairman-and-there_53487.jpg" --- # Paul A. Volcker (1927–2019) Economist **3** quotes in **45** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Paul A. Volcker was an economist. ## Quick Facts About Paul A. Volcker Born September 5, 1927 Died December 8, 2019 Profession Economist ## About Paul A. Volcker American economist (1927-2019)... \| Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with m ## Quotes by Paul A. Volcker > [By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-a-volcker/by-the-time-i-became-chairman-and-there-was-more-of-a-feeling-of/) Paul A. Volcker [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/paul-a-volcker-82748_accept_by-the-time-i-became-chairman-and-there_53487.jpg) > [You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-a-volcker/you-could-not-buy-a-house-in-those-days-without-just-assuming-that/) Paul A. Volcker [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/217/paul-a-volcker-82748_ahead_you-could-not-buy-a-house-in-those-days_1713364.jpg) > [Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-a-volcker/well-by-the-standards-of-a-lot-of-countries-by-latin-american/) Paul A. Volcker [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a03/paul-a-volcker-82748_american_well-by-the-standards-of-a-lot-of-countr_2986156.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-a-volcker/#itemlist", "name": "Paul A. Volcker Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul A. 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