Time magazine has named Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as its Person of the Year for 2009. Probably a good choice -- despite complaints, the man seems to have turned around a crisis that threatened to make our current recession, bad as it is, look like a picnic.
For a review of Time's past choices and a link to the full list, try: http://www.morning-fog.com/2009/12/the-time-magazine-person-of-the-year.html . It's interesting to look at. Fed Chairmen's names don't seem to stick in our memories through history as well as Presidents' do, so very likely your children won't know who Bernanke was, any more than they know Hugh Johnson, National Recovery Administrator, who won the title in 1933.
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