Wed
Dec 16 2009
10:42 am
By: R. Neal
TIME: The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. Thank the man who runs the Federal Reserve, our mild-mannered economic overlord.
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I'm afraid I can't agree
I'm afraid I can't agree with TIME's choice this year. Right now I can't think of anyone I would name person of the year. I'll keep trying. Hasn't TIME in the past elected to not name a person of the year?
Irony is now obsolete
This is right up there with Kissinger getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems scary and weird. It'll happen to you." —Abraham Simpson
My Macro-Econ Professor
Times Person of the Year??!! And to think he was my macro professor 10 years ago! I had some awesome economics professors at Princeton (Christine Paxson, Cecilia Rouse, Uwe Reinhardt and Alan Krueger to name a few) but Bernanke wasn't one of them.
This reminds me of when the
This reminds me of when the Chevy Vega was Motor Trend's Car of the Year.
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The person of the year is
The person of the year is obviously Joe Lieberman. And not in a good way...
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