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Paul Volcker. When it comes to the architects of the neoliberal era, everyone talks about Hayek and Greenspan and Thatcher and Reagan. But no one mentions Volcker despite the man literally having the weaponizing of interest rates to break unions and the spending power of the working class named after him, the eponymous Volcker Shock.