In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic - Hardcover

Wessel, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307459683 ISBN 13: 9780307459688

Publisher: Crown Pub, 2009

Synopsis

In Fed We Trust This breakout book on the financial crisis is Pulitzer Prize-winner Wessel's inside account of the struggle of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his financial firefighters to keep the Great Panic from becoming the next Great Depression.

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Review:

."..gives a revealing blow-by-blow account of the recent financial crisis"
--David Brooks, "The New York Times

"."..essential, lucid--and, it turns out, riveting--reading."
--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times

"."..a tale that's nothing short of hair-raising..reveals in scary detail how unprepared politicians and regulators truly were..."
--Paul M Barrett, "The New York Times Book Review

""Wessel delivers an engrossing account of Bernanke's improvisational responses to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."
--"Fortune "Magazine

.".. so far the most entertaining and most readable book on the financial crisis."
--Tyler Cowen, marginalrevolution.com

."..persuasively told and richly reported... It will win awards and inspire copycats."
--"BusinessWeek "

"David Wessel brings his deep knowledge of the Federal Reserve and U.S. politics and economics to a topic that will be studied by historians for decades to come...No one can understand what happened and what did not happen without reading this book."
-Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author of "Globalization and its Discontents"
"From the Hardcover edition."

...gives a revealing blow-by-blow account of the recent financial crisis
David Brooks, The New York Times
...essential, lucid and, it turns out, riveting reading."
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
...a tale that s nothing short of hair-raising..reveals in scary detail how unprepared politicians and regulators truly were...
Paul M Barrett, The New York Times Book Review
Wessel delivers an engrossing account of Bernanke's improvisational responses to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Fortune Magazine
... so far the most entertaining and most readable book on the financial crisis.
Tyler Cowen, marginalrevolution.com
...persuasively told and richly reported... It will win awards and inspire copycats.
BusinessWeek
"David Wessel brings his deep knowledge of the Federal Reserve and U.S. politics and economics to a topic that will be studied by historians for decades to come...No one can understand what happened and what did not happen without reading this book."
Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author of Globalization and its Discontents

From the Hardcover edition."

-...gives a revealing blow-by-blow account of the recent financial crisis-
--David Brooks, The New York Times
-...essential, lucid--and, it turns out, riveting--reading.-
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
-...a tale that's nothing short of hair-raising..reveals in scary detail how unprepared politicians and regulators truly were...-
--Paul M Barrett, The New York Times Book Review
-Wessel delivers an engrossing account of Bernanke's improvisational responses to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.-
--Fortune Magazine
-... so far the most entertaining and most readable book on the financial crisis.-
--Tyler Cowen, marginalrevolution.com
-...persuasively told and richly reported... It will win awards and inspire copycats.-
--BusinessWeek
-David Wessel brings his deep knowledge of the Federal Reserve and U.S. politics and economics to a topic that will be studied by historians for decades to come...No one can understand what happened and what did not happen without reading this book.-
-Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author of Globalization and its Discontents

From the Hardcover edition.

..".gives a revealing blow-by-blow account of the recent financial crisis"
--David Brooks, The New York Times

..".essential, lucid--and, it turns out, riveting--reading."
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

..".a tale that's nothing short of hair-raising..reveals in scary detail how unprepared politicians and regulators truly were..."
--Paul M Barrett, The New York Times Book Review

"Wessel delivers an engrossing account of Bernanke's improvisational responses to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."
--Fortune Magazine

..". so far the most entertaining and most readable book on the financial crisis."
--Tyler Cowen, marginalrevolution.com

..".persuasively told and richly reported... It will win awards and inspire copycats."
--BusinessWeek

"David Wessel brings his deep knowledge of the Federal Reserve and U.S. politics and economics to a topic that will be studied by historians for decades to come...No one can understand what happened and what did not happen without reading this book."
-Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author of Globalization and its Discontents

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

DAVID WESSEL is the economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and writes the Capital column, a weekly look at the forces shaping living standards around the world. David has shared two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Boston Globe stories in 1983 on the persistence of racism in Boston and the other for stories in The Wall Street Journal in 2002 on corporate wrongdoing. He appears frequently on National Public Radio and is a regular on PBS’s Washington Week.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307459683
• ISBN 13: 9780307459688
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 323