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Henry Wallich
German–American economist and government official (1914–1988)
Henry Christopher Wallich (/ˈwɑːlɪk/; June 10, 1914 – September 15, 1988) was a German American economist who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1974 to 1986. He previously served as a member of the Council of the Economic Advisers under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Wallich also held a professorship of economics at Yale University. He was best known as an economic columnist for Newsweek magazine, from 1965 until he joined The Federal Reserve.[1] For a period he wrote one week in three, with Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson,[2] with their 1967 columns earning the magazine a Gerald Loeb Special Award in 1968.[3]