Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke announced to the AP that he wants to write a book about the financial crisis of 2008 and the recession that followed it: “I want people to understand what we knew, when we knew it, how we made decisions and how we dealt with the enormous economic uncertainty.” Bernanke “expects to begin meeting with publishers within the next several weeks.” As you prepare, you can review Princeton University Press’s collection of a lecture series by Bernanke on the same topic, published a year ago. Separately, a page-one 1,300-word investigation by the NYT reveals that […]
