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Executive Order Addressing Anticompetitive Behavior In The Food Supply Chain Provides Insight On The Trump Administration’s Antitrust Enforcement Priorities
In December 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order, titled “Addressing Security Risks from Price Fixing and Anti-Competitive Behavior in the Food Supply Chain,” signaling in no uncertain terms that his Administration intends to crack down on collusion in food-related industries. The Order, among other things, directs the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission to create “Food Supply Chain Security Task Forces” that will investigate domestic enti ...
Volcker’s lessons for restoring dented US credibility
By Christine Harper / Bloomberg Opinion Two episodes from Paul Volcker’s long career in public service stand out as lessons for US President Donald Trump’s administration today. In 1971, Volcker helped end the postwar global financial order that was anchored by the price of gold in US dollars. A disruptive decade later, at the helm of the US Federal Reserve, he established a new order based on competent economic management.
BULLDOG BITES: Getting Ready for 2023-24!
By Christine Harper, Director of Communications Posted 6/16/23 Life in public education doesn’t stop on May 26 or whenever the last day of school is. There is a great deal that happens during the summer months that many people don’t realize are … This item is available in full to subscribers. Attention subscribers We have recently launched a new and improved website. To continue reading, you will need to either log into your subscriber account, or purchase a new subscription.
Will Jerome Powell’s Inflation Crusade Get as Ugly as Paul Volcker’s?
Paul Volcker was feeling a bit forgotten in late 2017 when he started working on his memoir, which I was helping him write. Inflation was no longer feared, exchange-rate crises weren’t big news, and his longtime campaign to improve public administration seemed more quixotic than ever. So the 90-year-old former leader of the Federal Reserve started his book with a self-deprecating joke about a wise old parrot known as “the chairman,” and insisted the title should be .
There's the legend of Paul Volcker and the man i got to know
Christine Harper, Bloomberg Published 9:55 am PST, Monday, December 9, 2019 Paul Volcker, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve (center) at the International Monetary Fund in Washington on July 2, 2014. Paul Volcker, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve (center) at the International Monetary Fund in Washington on July 2, 2014. Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Andrew Harrer. Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Andrew Harrer.
KEEPING AT IT by Paul Volcker , Christine Harper
The former chairman of the Federal Reserve describes the “challenge and satisfactions of public service” and laments the “breakdown” of effective governance in the United States. In this thoughtful memoir, Volcker (co-author: Changing Fortunes, 1992), now 91, reflects on his lifelong dedication to good government, sparked during his comfortable Depression-era childhood in Teaneck, New Jersey, where his engineer-father was city manager.
Volcker Recalls Another Time the Fed Was in the President’s Crosshairs
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Donald Trump’s repeated public criticism of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy seems extraordinary, but he isn’t the first president to oppose raising rates. Paul Volcker, 91, has had firsthand experience with this, both in Lyndon Johnson’s Treasury Department and as Fed chairman during the Reagan administration, as he recalls in Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government (Oct.
Volcker Recalls Another Time the Fed Was in the President’s Crosshairs
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Donald Trump’s repeated public criticism of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy seems extraordinary, but he isn’t the first president to oppose raising rates. Paul Volcker, 91, has had firsthand experience with this, both in Lyndon Johnson’s Treasury Department and as Fed chairman during the Reagan administration, as he recalls in Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government (Oct.
Keeping At It
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Yale's Swensen Sees Low Volatility as `Profoundly Troubling'
“When you compare the fundamental risks that we see all around the globe with the lack of volatility in our securities markets, it’s profoundly troubling,” Swensen, 63, said Tuesday during remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. That “makes me wonder if we’re not setting ourselves up for an ’87, or a ’98 or a 2008-2009,” he said, referring to previous market crises.
JPMorgan's Dimon Says Tax Bill Represents `Significant Progress'
"If we are serious about growing the economy, creating jobs and increasing wages for all Americans, this country needs a modernized tax code. It is that simple,” Dimon said. “While the tax reform bill released today deserves close analysis, it is significant progress toward achieving these goals.
Wall Street bond trading, allocation draws scrutiny
(Bloomberg) — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is examining whether Wall Street firms overcharge investors on some bond trades and whether they unfairly allocate new corporate debt issues to reward certain clients. Richard Ketchum, the chairman and chief executive officer of Wall Street’s self-regulator, said FINRA is looking at trading data to see if brokers sometimes earn unusually large profits on bond trades, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Goldman Sachs Research Disputes ‘Too Big to Fail' Bank Subsidy
Bond investors don't perceive the six biggest U.S. banks as "too big to fail," according to a report from one of those lenders, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The half-dozen largest U.S. banks by assets have had an average funding-cost advantage over smaller competitors of 0.31 percentage point since 1999, according to the report from the New York-based firm.
Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO
Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill. Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO, the biggest in history for an Internet company. Saverin’s stake is about 4 percent, according to the website Who Owns Facebook. At the high end of the IPO valuation, that would be worth about $3.84 billion.
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