Donald Trump Likes Volcker—and His Rule
He praises the former Federal Reserve chairman, slams the Export-Import Bank, and dismisses super-PACS as a “total phony deal.”
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Riding high in the polls, Donald Trump has begun sketching out the kinds of people he might appoint as president, and the kinds of policies he might favor.
On Bloomberg's With All Due Respect, Trump praised Paul Volcker, the inflation-taming Fed chairman of the early 1980s, as a role model for the type of central banker he would pick. Volcker, now 87, not only had good ideas but the right style, Trump said.