In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic / David Wessel.
Wessel, David.
2009
HG2565 .W47 2009 (Mapit)
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Title In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic / David Wessel.
Author Wessel, David.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780307459688
0307459683
Imprint New York : Crown Business, c2009.
Language English
Description xii, 323 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HG2565 .W47 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 332.1/10973
Summary In this penetrating look inside the most powerful economic institution in the world, the Federal Reserve, David Wessel illuminates its opaque and undemocratic inner workings, while revealing how its chairman Ben Bernanke led the desperate effort to prevent the world's financial engine from grinding to a halt.
Note "How the federal reserve became the fourth branch of government"--Dust jkt.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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: ... 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 kep his promise to Milton Friedman? the early verdict.

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