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

Name: In Fed We Trust Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
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ISBN: 9780307459688

ISBN-10: 0307459683

ISBN-13: 9780307459688

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Wessel

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For more than 20 years David Wessel has beenThe Wall Street Journal's insider at the Federal Reserve, with continual access not only to Fed Chairmen Greenspan and Bernanke, but also to other Fed governors, policy-makers, and staffers. While the Constitution specifies three coequal branches of government, over the past three decades a fourth branch has emerged, the Federal Reserve. The single most important economic institution in the world, the Fed steers the13 trillion dollar American economy by printing money and influencing the price of credit. In stable times it has a powerful yet unseen effect on the day-to-day life of every person in the world. But when things hit the fanas they did…

Book details

List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/4/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

David Wessel is the economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and writes the weekly Capital column. He 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. He speaks frequently on National Public Radio and is a regular on PBS's Washington Week.



Dramatis Personae


Introduction: Whatever It Takes



Let Ol'Lehman Go: The pivotal weekend of September 12-14, 2008



"Periodical Financial Debauches": The long-forgotten history of the Fed



Age of Delusion: What Greenspan wrought



There Are Jews in Boston, Too: Who is Ben Bernanke?



Pas De Deux: The Great Panic begins in August 2007



The Four Musketeers: Bernanke's Brain Trust: Bernanke, Kohn, Warsh, and Geithner



RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Blue Sky: The Fed's first response to the Great Panic



Running From Behind: How the Fed got behind the curve, and how it caught up



"Unusual and Exigent": Bear Stearns, the first rescue



Fannie, Freddie, and "Feddie": Taking over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and pondering next steps



Breaking: The Glass The fallout from Lehman and AIG and going to Congress-finally



"Socialism With American Characteristics": Forcing taxpayer capital on the banks



World of ZIRP: The Fed gets rates to zero



Did Bernanke Keep His Promise to Milton Friedman?: The early verdict


Notes


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index