In FED We Trust

Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic

By: David Wessel

Business & Economics

that was federal reserve chairman ben bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the great depression. brilliant but temperamentally cautious, bernanke researched and wrote about the causes of the depression during his career as an academic. then when thrust into a role as one of the most...