The Latest Breaking News from Paul Volcker

With wage growth far too hot, the Federal Reserve may need to implicitly hike its 2% inflation target to avoid a hard landing for the economy.

The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana famously warned that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". But sometimes even those who can recall the past have a selective memory and draw the wrong conclusions. This is how the global policy response to the current bout of inflation…

The idea that the Fed has the knowledge necessary to control the economy with perfectly calibrated policies was always an illusion.

The world's central banks face a nail-biting wait.

Unbeknownst to many, the gift for the 43rd anniversary of marriage is entertainment; to stretch it further, this fall marks the 43rd anniversary of a pivotal event in the history of the Federal Reserve and the U.S. economy.

The woman next to me, who described herself as knowing "zero" about the economy, asked whether I thought the Federal Reserve would continue raising interest rates. I felt an acute sense of dread.

The Federal Reserve is cracking down hard on inflation, in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the 1970s, when price hikes were so sustained, they got baked in to people's thinking.

Cathie Wood, the founder of ARK Investment Management, has said the current U.S. monetary policy is significantly more restrictive than in the 1980s when, to kill inflation, former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker had pushed the Fed funds rate up two-fold from 10% to 20%.

The goal of the latest interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve? To avoid a deep recession “by acting with resolve now,” according to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. But if history is any guide, this is a case of too little, too late.