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HARDtalk: Paul Volcker - Former US Federal Reserve chairman

14/02/2012

Paul Volcker - Former US Federal Reserve chairman

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Paul Volcker - Former US Federal Reserve chairman

Discussing the US economy's prospects with a veteran ex-chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Stephen Sackur asks the man who was chairman of the Federal Reserve under five presidents if America can get its economic swagger back.

HARDtalk is in the financial heart of New York City to meet one of the country's most respected and enduring policy makers. Paul Volcker was chairman of the Federal Reserve in the Reagan years and in all he served five presidents, most recently advising the Obama administration in regulating the banks and engineering an economic recovery. America has lost its economic swagger; Stephen Sackur asks - can it get it back?

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