David Wessel: Ben Bernanke vs. the Great Panic

Duration
1:06:22

Ben Bernanke vs. the Great Panic

David Wessel, Economics Editor, The Wall Street Journal; Author, In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic

How did we find ourselves confronting the worst threat to the U.S. economy since the Great Depression? Wessel will explain what the Federal Reserve did right and did wrong, where the economy stands now and where it is headed.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco at The Commonwealth Club of California on September 22, 2009