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What Was It That Precipitated All This?
Volcker raised interest rates to 10% above 19%. That finally did break the back of inflation, but the cost was immense. Of course, this was the birth of the Wall Street mania because the super high interest rates would have led to unbelievably low multiples on any asset that you could buy.