Jimmy Carter's work on the Federal Reserve, deregulation and energy consumption : The Indicator from Planet Money On this edition of Indicators of the Week, we discuss the economic legacy of ...

Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 general election by a landslide to Ronald Reagan, ... Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns accommodated Nixon’s desire for easy money in the early 1970s, ...

Everybody knows that Jimmy Carter was America’s last truly liberal president until Barack Obama. But everybody is wrong.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, inflation neared 6% in 1976 before Carter’s presidency began. Carter then presided over 6.5%, 7.5%, 11.3% and 13.5% inflation in successive years.

Unfortunately, the last 18 months of Carter’s presidency witnessed punishing inflation, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker’s sky-high interest rates to stop spiraling prices and increasing ...

Jimmy Carter’s presidency is ripe for a major reappraisal. ... But the man who did that was Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker — appointed by Carter in 1979.

Jimmy Carter was imperfect in office, ... just as he was running for a second term, the Federal Reserve decided it was time to crush inflation – with punitively high interest rates that sank the ...

Jimmy Carter is often hailed as one of the greatest ... being almost synonymous with “inflation,” Carter ironically appointed inflation hawk Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve, ...

Paul Volcker, American economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, attends a congress on the raising of salaries for ...

Jimmy Carter, America’s oldest ex-president, has died at 100. ... Carter’s selection of Paul Volcker at the Federal Reserve and his deregulatory initiatives would help contribute to the Reagan boom.

Everybody knows that Jimmy Carter was America’s last truly liberal president until Barack Obama. ... chair of the Federal Reserve Board — and a Carter appointee. ...

Jimmy Carter left office in 1981 one of the least popular U.S. presidents ever. He died Sunday, at the age of 100, according to his son, James E. Carter III, as one of the most popular ex ...