oh, mister, we can do this no problem. >> oh, oh, yes, that's right. you bought a house, so that means you now have to earn another $1,800 to come with the down payment. now we're up to $3,000 a month. >> it's still doable. >> sherry's rolling her eyes. tell me what you're thinking. >> i don't know. i'd like to see it. >> i'd like to see it, too. >> i have no doubts that i can do this. i can outside and just ask for a couple of jobs. i'm gonna do my best just to prove them wrong. they think that's it's gonna be hard and it's not. >> i think david's enthusiasm and optimism is not realistic. >> sherry's doubts are well founded. the one little painting job david managed to get didn't pay anywhere close to $3,000. so sherry left ashton with his grandmother and took extra work to meet the debt reduction challenge. >> nice. david, grab that $200. >> what else? >> that $500 right there. >> gone. >> did you make anymore money? >> it was just one job though. it was last friday. >> and how was your week? >> busy-- really, busy. >> you're taking on a lot more wor

in the book mister wells looks at the role played by federal reserve chairman ben bernanke following the 2008 economic collapse. he discusses his book with alice rivlin, first director of the congressional budget office and current senior fellow at the brookings institution. >> host: hello. i'm alice rivlin and it's my pleasure to be talking to david wessel about his book, "in fed we trust." ben bernanke's war on the great panic. which actually has a second subtitle as i read it. not every book has two subtitles, david. how the federal reserve became the fourth bank branch of government. it's a fascinating book. >> guest: thank you. >> host: and i think i should make that clear. at the outset. you take the reader step-by-step through the crisis of the last couple of years from the eyes of the chairman of the federal reserve, ben bernanke. so the book lets you see what dan and his colleagues weresed,d why they did what they did, the internal tensions and uncertainties, and how they were learning along the way. you're a very good translator of fed speech by the way. and i've been known

just hold it, mister. i was given a boarding pass with the wrong name on it. i went through five different security passes. and then a woman at the gate who will not look at my passport, who will not call continental, who will not call for help, who will not recheck into their records, says to me, you cannot go on? no.

>> the nomation of those misters to the parliament was not dierent from anywhere in the wod.e have people who are tru qualified for these jobs and we have peop who ve strong political influence. all have ctributed to the cotry like anywhere in the world. this is the stanrd case in afghistan or anywhere else. but the paiament chooseto be strict and approve only those who met e criteria of merit. which is a good step for afghanistan. >> warner:ow, there is a theory that prident karzai is actually relied that he went ahead a made these appointments tt he felt he had to, to pay off people o d helped him. the parliament then essentially did the rty work of rejecting the unqualified ones and now he can back and point others. >> this is theeality of afghanistan as i menoned. now the presidt once again has a chance to intruce those who are consideredo be better qualified to do the job. >> warner:here does this leave e government in the meantime? the departg head of the u.n. missn said at least afanistan is still without a functioning governme which has en going on for way too long. >

assets. 10 days later mister lynch poured out you were in the room when they told the nine biggest banks were not going to buy the troubled assets. you will take department. >> that was one of the best decision, one of the most important decisions speedy's i understand the pattern. we were told one thing, 10 days whether an entirely different action was taking place. >> i don't think that is correct. congress authorized was -- >> you don't think congress passed that bill because there's to the money that taxpayers are going to put up was going to be used by troubled assets? >> i think the authorities the president bush asked for gave my predecessor the authority to put capital in banks. and doing that -- >> here's the pattern, mr. geithner. the government comes to the taxpayers and say is we need a boatload of your money couple we won it for a specific person. then they go for something else. then they come to the taxpayers and say we need more of your money and were going to use 62 billion ipo dollars. this is why we never should have traveled down this road. this unprecedented involvem