Medicare and Medicaid
The two largest federal health care programs: the "Pac-Men of the federal budget"
Articles By: Ben Wilcox 
The Fed and the Crisis of 2007
In Fed We Trust, by David Wessel, Crown Business, 2009. $26.99, 336 pgs. Screenwriters take note: this economic crisis will provide material for decades to come. The story of Ben Bernanke, the soft-spoken economist with humble roots in small-town South Carolina, is on its own the stuff of cinema. Bernanke, a Depression scholar, capped a meteoric rise through academia by ... Read More
