Red Ink Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget

Name: Red Ink Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
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ISBN: 9780770436162

ISBN-10: 0770436161

ISBN-13: 9780770436162

Edition: 2013

Authors: David Wessel

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David Wessel, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, columnist, and bestselling author ofIn Fed We Trust, dissects the federal budget: a topic that is fiercely debated today in the halls of Congress and the media, and yet is misunderstood by the American public.Now aNew York Timesbestseller.In a sweeping narrative about the people and the politics behind the budget, Wessel looks at the 2011 fiscal year (which ended September 30) to see where all the money was actually spent, and why the budget process has grown wildly out of control. Through the eyes of key people--Jacob Lew, White House director of the Office of Management and Budget; Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication date: 7/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.95" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.374
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.