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Time Machine: Volcker Shock

Explain It to Me

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The Vulgar Shock

The rightward turn in american life and politics over the last 30 years owes as much to paul vulkar as anyone like, certainly as much as it does to roland ragan. There's a lot of recent historical work suggesting that that the vulgar shock a help lead to the financialization the economy over all. The big change to the fed in this period, sort of legally, was in 19 78, they passed the humphrey hawkins act which mandated that the fed pursue full employment and price stability. And so many central banks around the world, our just task with reducing inflationand insuring pricestability.

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