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By: He Does The Dishes, Too « Around The Sphere

He Does The Dishes, Too « Around The Sphere — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:35:39 +0000

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By: DFL

DFL — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:21:05 +0000

Bernanke not only has he devalued the currency by printing up greenbacks, he has not given the two presidents and Congress a stern enough warning about the looming doom.

By: Toddtheconservative

Toddtheconservative — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:56:27 +0000

Man of the year! I’m sick to my bones ! Now contrast that with this article:

http://americaspeaksink.com/2009/12/unemployment-benefit-extensions-are-a-blatant-lie/

By: jruss89

jruss89 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:18:21 +0000

DFL // Dec 16, 2009 at 5:24 pm

“And our children will have to shoulder more debt due to our lack of fiscal discipline.”

And that has nothing to do with Bernake. The Fed controls American monetary policy and not fiscal policy, which is under the jurisdiction of Congress.

By: MI-GOPer

MI-GOPer — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:25:57 +0000

Time magazine picked Bernacke? What next? Obama gets the Nobel? Gore gets an Oscar?

Oh, wait, never mind.

I haven’t read Time magazine since Claire Booth Luce died in her Watergate apartment. It’s amazing it is still around. Like the NYTimes. Or Detroit. Amazing dinosaurs of an irrelevant past.

By: LauraNo

LauraNo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:19:17 +0000

I am very relieved that we didn’t go completely over the cliff, taking the world with us. Yes, I blame him for the fact we needed saving but he was hardly alone in creating the mess. Deregulators of all stripes and Alan Greenspan’s blind faith in corps and hedge fund managers and various other money mongers being sensible in face of quick, greedy profits shoulder most of the blame in my mind. However we came to that very, very bad place, he took us out of it and I can’t think of anyone more deserving of man of the year, even man of the century. Or should I say man of last 100 years since this century is so young?

By: franco 2

franco 2 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:40:39 +0000

This award or whatever it is has become worthless. Time magazine has become a joke and the Person(s) of the year is the best punchline..”YOU!”

Who cares what Time says. The real name for this publication should be TimeWarner.

By: sinz54

sinz54 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:35:16 +0000

Holtz-Eakin:

The financial crisis threatened the Federal Reserve, the U.S. economy, and the economies of every country on the planet. And Ben Bernanke led a Fed response of almost unimaginable scale and scope.

Ben Bernanke was Fed chairman in the months leading up to the financial crisis. Evidently he failed to predict it, he failed to take steps to shield us against it--and was just as blind-sided about it as everyone else. Of course, all that happened in 2008, so it doesn't affect Bernanke's qualifications for Man of the Year 2009. Still, it does tarnish his shining armor a bit, don't you think?

By: DFL

DFL — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:24:13 +0000

And our children will have to shoulder more debt due to our lack of fiscal discipline. Once again the long term has lost out to the short term. Such is democracy.