David Wessel Excerpts Book ‘In Fed We Trust’ on Ben Bernanke’s Recession FightIn his new book, "In Fed We Trust," WSJ Economics Editor David Wessel examines how Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has steered the U.S. economy through the "Great Panic." The Fed could no longer cope with the Great Panic by itself. The Federal Reserve chairman had suspected for months that he and then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would eventually end up asking Congress to spend substantial sums of t
