David Wessel
David Wessel is a journalist and writer who has shared two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. David is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, and a Contributing Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining Brookings in 2013, David spent 30 years on the staff of WSJ, where he was most recently an economics editor and writer of the "Capital", a weekly look at the economy and forces shaping living standards around the world. Previously, David worked for the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant and Middletown Press. He also has taught in the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business Global 2030 executive education program and in the journalism program at Princeton University. He has written two New York Times best-sellers: “Red Ink: Inside the High Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget” and “In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic”. David appears frequently on NPR's Morning Edition and WETA's Washington Week.
David Wessel Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
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Contributing Correspondent
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Economics Editor, Writer of the "Capital" column
Academic History
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B.A., Economics
EARLY CAREER
David began his career at the Middletown, Connecticut Press and later joined the staff of the Hartford Courant.
He spent a year as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.
He moved to The Boston Globe in 1981 and was hired in 1983 as a reporter in The Wall Street Journal's Boston bureau.
WALL STREET JOURNAL
He was responsible for overseeing coverage of the Fed and the Journal's daily coverage of the macro economy, global trade and economic trends.
He was deputy bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau, and served as the newspaper's Berlin bureau chief.
HONORS & RECOGNITIONS
1984 Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting
2003 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
BOOKS
Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age (2021)
Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy (Co-author, 2021)
Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget (2012)
In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic (2009)