介绍： Paul Volcker, chairman of the Fed and America's doughtiest inflation-fighter, died on December 8th, aged 92

保罗·沃尔克是美联储主席和美国最勇猛的通货膨胀斗士，他于12月8日去世，享年92岁。

In his spells of leisure time, when he had any, Paul Volcker liked to go fishing. Towering above a river in his jerkin an...

介绍： Paul Volcker, chairman of the Fed and America's doughtiest inflation-fighter, died on December 8th, aged 92

保罗·沃尔克是美联储主席和美国最勇猛的通货膨胀斗士，他于12月8日去世，享年92岁。

In his spells of leisure time, when he had any, Paul Volcker liked to go fishing. Towering above a river in his jerkin and waders, fly cast, cigar firmly in mouth, was a good way to ruminate on big decisions. And he believed in rumination. "Procrastinate and flourish" was a favourite motto. Another, from George Washington, which his father had kept above his desk when he was city manager of Teaneck, New Jersey, was: "Do not suffer your good nature...to say yes when you ought to say no."

当保罗有闲暇时间时，他喜欢去钓鱼。穿着背心和水靴，紧紧叼着雪茄，高高耸立在一条河上，这是沉思重大决策的好方法。他相信沉思。“拖延和繁荣”是他最喜欢的格言。另外一句则出自乔治·华盛顿，在担任新泽西州蒂内克市市执行长时，他父亲将这句话置于他桌子之上：“不要让你的善良本性受折磨...不要在该说不的时候说是。”
So when he was asked in 1974 to be president of the New York Fed, he went off on a fishing trip to chew it over. And in meetings and congressional-committee hearings later, as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, he hid his bald head in smoke-clouds, as if he was slowly weighing up what answers he could possibly give. His salvo against America's inflation in 1979, which slew the dragon for decades, therefore seemed unusually abrupt.

所以保罗在1974年受邀担任纽约联邦储备银行行长时，开启了一次钓鱼之旅来好好思考这个问题。随后，他在1979年至1987年之间担任美联储主席，在会议和国会委员会听证会上，保罗把他那光秃秃的脑袋藏在烟雾里，仿佛在慢慢地掂量他能说出什么答案。因此，他在1979年对拖累美国几十年的通货膨胀的猛烈抨击显得格外突然。