Volcker is pretty much believed to have ended the periods of high inflation, so what makes you blame him for a "crash"?
> “You could see that no one anticipated that adjustment, even after Volcker began to address inflation. They didn’t think it would happen to them,” Hoenig recalled. Overall, more than 1,600 banks failed between 1980 and 1994, the worst failure rate since Depression.
I had not personally made that connection to S&L failures but getting out of a bubble has to impose costs to somebody.