Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget

By David Wessel

Categories: Business & Money, Politics & Social Sciences

Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget (2012) is a book by David Wessel, economics editor at The Wall Street Journal. Wessel explains where the U.S. federal government's money comes from and where it goes, and the politics behind the budget deficit. He walks readers through taxes, entitlements, defense and the negotiations that shape each year's spending fight.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is David Wessell's "Red Ink." If you want to talk about the federal budget as we all seem to be doing these days, please read this short book, so you actually know the facts about spending and taxes. Wessel's single accomplishment is that it is a book about the budget and it's not boring.”