On Capital & The Capitol - David Wessel

Journalist David Wessel is economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and writes the newspaper’s weekly “Capital” column. His book, “In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic,” was a New York Times notable book in 2009. Wessel has shared two Pulitzer prizes, one for a series on the persistence of racism in Boston (Boston Globe, 1983) and the other for a series on corporate wrong-doing (The Wall Street Journal, 2002). He frequently appears on National Public Radio and WETA’s Washington Week. A 1975 graduate of Haverford College, Wessel is also the co-author of “Prosperity,” a 1998 book on the American middle class. Learn more at http://enthompson.unl.edu/