Volcker was referred to as the "former Fed chairman who fought inflation" (here);  "inflation tamer" and "a full-fledged inflation warrior" (here); and the "Fed chairman who waged war on inflation" and led "the Federal Reserve's brute-force campaign to subdue inflation" (here).  Mr. Volcker certainly deserves credit for curbing the Great Inflation of the 1970s.  However, he also merits a lion's share of the blame for unleashing the Great Inflation on the US and the world economy in the first place.  For it was Mr. Volcker who masterminded the program that President Nixon announced on August 15, 1971, which  unilaterally suspended gold convertibility of US dollars held by foreign governments and central banks, imposed a fascist wage-price freeze on the US economy, and slapped a 10 percent surcharge on foreign imports.1