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Paul Volcker, a Rare card
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairperson of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the "Volcker shock".
- He previously served as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1975 to 1979.
- President Jimmy Carter nominated him to succeed G. William Miller as Fed chairman and President Ronald Reagan renominated him once.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Paul Volcker article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Paul Volcker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Universitätsarchiv St.Gallen (HSG), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.