In FED We Trust
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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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Based on the title, I was hoping for more insight into either Bernanke or the Fed as an institution. Instead, it's more of a general narrative on the financial crisis, and it works well as such, but I would have liked to get more detail on, for example, Bernanke's work in academia prior to joining the Fed.
