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Paul Volcker - Former US Federal Reserve chairman
America has lost its economic swagger. Stephen Sackur asks Paul Volcker, the former US Federal Reserve chairman, can it get it back?
Hardtalk is in the financial heart of New York City to meet one of the country’s most respected and enduring policy makers.
Paul Volcker was chairman of the Federal Reserve in the Reagan years and in all he served five presidents, most recently advising the Obama administration in regulating the banks and engineering an economic recovery.
America has lost its economic swagger; Stephen Sackur asks - can it get it back?
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