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By not in system - AOL NewsTime magazine has named Ben Bernanke its 2009 Person of the Year. The magazine said the Federal Reserve chairman's foresight and success at preventing a second Great Depression -- the history that wasn't made this year -- drove its choice. "We've rarely had such a perfect revision of the cliché that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it," Richard Stengel, Time's managing editor, writes in an introduction to this week's issue. "Bernanke didn't just learn from history; he wrote it himself and was damned if he was going to repeat it. Bernanke decided to do the opposite of ...
Ben Bernanke Is Time's 2009 Person of the Year
By David Sessions - Politics DailyTime magazine has named Ben Bernanke its 2009 Person of the Year. The magazine said the Federal Reserve chairman's foresight and success at preventing a second Great Depression -- the history that wasn't made this year -- drove its choice. "We've rarely had such a perfect revision of the cliché that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it," Richard Stengel, Time's managing editor, writes in an introduction to this week's issue. "Bernanke didn't just learn from history; he wrote it himself and was damned if he was going to repeat it. Bernanke decided to do the opposite of ...
Obama to Offer Bill Clinton a Job?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs the presidential campaign winds its way down to the Iowa caucuses, the verbal sparring between candidates has grown more personal in nature. On the Democratic side of the equation, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been calling each other out by name on a regular basis, Hillary questioning Obama's experience, and Obama wondering aloud about Clinton's judgment. So it may come as a surprise, that in the midst of this rhetorical warming period, who Obama has declared he would offer a position in his administration. Answer? None other than Hillary's hubby, Bill.During an interview with Time ...
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