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In Fed we trust

Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic

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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.

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Crown Business
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323

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August 3, 2010, Three Rivers Press
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In Fed we trust: Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic
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In Fed we trust: Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic
2009, Crown Business
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: In Fed we trust
In Fed we trust: Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic
2009, Crown Business
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: In Fed we trust
In Fed we trust: Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic
2009, Crown Business
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: In Fed we trust
In Fed we trust: Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic
2009, Crown Business
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: In Fed we trust
In Fed we trust: Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic
2009, Crown Business
in English - 1st ed.
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In Fed we trust: Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic
2009, Crown Business
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

"How the federal reserve became the fourth branch of government"--Dust jkt.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-302; [307]-308) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
332.1/10973
Library of Congress
HG2565 .W47 2009

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Pagination
xii, 323 p. ;
Number of pages
323

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OL24023338M
Internet Archive
infedwetrustbenb00wess
ISBN 10
0307459683
ISBN 13
9780307459688
LCCN
2009289789
OCLC/WorldCat
299706971
Goodreads
6569694

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Fall of the economy, and how we could have saved it.

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