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Paul Volcker

1979 - President Carter appointed Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. 

Volcker constricted the money supply to stop runaway inflation. The U.S. plunged into the deepest economic recession since the Great Depression, but soon recovered.

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Program Segment 14

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Friedman
Volcker

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