‘Person of the Year’: Time Picks Fed Chair Ben Bernanake

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Time: His creative leadership helped ensure that 2009 was a period of weak recovery rather than catastrophic depression, and he still wields unrivaled power over our money, our jobs, our savings and our national future.

December 16, 2009 at 9:33 am - NBC/Today
Dateline: New York, NY
Rexter   December 16th, 2009 - 10:30 am

Now the NWO types are going-for-broke. This is a wonderful time! These insular elites aren’t yet adjusted to the new reality. People aren’t buying this bilge any more. It used to be they could control perceptions this way more effectively but that is just no longer the case. They are just burning out their last resources. We now listen to GCN, http://republicbroadcasting.org/, Russia Today (where they are less controlled than US press), whatreallyhappened.com, etc….

This morning I caught some of NPR – it is like state controlled media now. They were lavishing praise on some small town in the UK that was gullible enough to fall for this “carbon threat” nonsense. They hope we will follow suit but that reached its climax and is now descending. We’re not gonna take it! Take your Gorebaloney and get out of the US!

Bernanke, Chief financial destroyer   December 16th, 2009 - 10:31 am

Guess the Libs have picked the worst financial person in the U.S. to be their bathroom reading material. Bernanke & Geithner are the dumbest financial two I have ever witnessed.

Other   December 16th, 2009 - 10:34 am

He deserves it.

Colascguy   December 16th, 2009 - 10:46 am

Not my work but accurate

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We have had a federal reserve that for decades has a had monetary policy that is too loose. We have also had a government that legally demanded (CRA) and financially subsidized (Fannie and Freddie) bad behavior. The final insult is the myth that the world would have ended had the worst offenders been allowed to fail.

Capital seeks employment. When excess capital is rattling around the economy (interest rates from the fed are artificially low), increasingly risky investments will be made. This is because the low hanging fruit of low risk/high return investments have already been pursued. The more loose the monetary policy the riskier the investments. This is by definition a “bubble” and it is the direct and result of an incompetent Federal Reserve.

Now, add a regulatory environment that for decades has said to the banks:
“Make bad loans” (again, Community Reinvestment Act). Fannie and Freddie will buy the mortgages and repackage them. In addition, if there is ever a problem the gov’t will cover Fannie and Freddie so risk isn’t an issue. Let the profits roll!”

Believe it or not there are many banks that behaved responsibly and would have benefited greatly long term had there been a shake out in the banking industry. I am amazed that we have politicians who stole from the American public to save failing banks and then we fault bank leadership at failing institutions for grabbing the lifelines. I blame the boneheads writing checks out of my account much more than the boneheads willing to cash the checks.

Yes, bankers are self-interested. However, the real crooks are those that are now posturing as saviors of the western world while they continue to plunder the future of America. If we are looking for crooks I propose the following:

Public Enemy #1 – The Federal Reserve – Why exactly do we need unelected bureaucrats manipulating interest rates (controlling the value of money)? I wonder what the real market rates for borrowing money would be without manipulation.
#2 – The federal government for continuing its ridiculous interventionist policies, because for some reason the belief persists that politicians know more about running businesses than do successful business people.

A very distant third are the subset of bankers that over-reacted to the ridiculous environment created by the Fed and the gov’t. Had TARP not happened, this group wouldn’t even make the list as the market would have resolved very nicely all the issues of executive compensation, poor lending practices, etc.

Wolfed Blitz   December 16th, 2009 - 10:47 am

I think it’s about time we had a bald Time Man of The Year.

Bravo to Time Magazine! The best just keeps getting better.

Signed,

Big giant pile of vomit

s.houston   December 16th, 2009 - 10:50 am

For 100 years the lying politician critters and the fed have been printing,
(counterfeiting) money out of thin air to help fix the problems they help create.

Bernanake and Obama are finishing off the dollar bubble.

United States Dollar R.I.P. 1792 – 2010

claspur   December 16th, 2009 - 10:57 am

This was okayed, like the 30,000 troop deployment to Afghanistan by The Bilderberg Group.(what president takes three months to act on His in-theatre generals’advice for more troops?)((Maobummercorn’s a total puppet))

The Fed is no more federal than Federal Express.

Search-up: “The Obama Deception” 1:51:21 in length.

Vernis Magnetic   December 16th, 2009 - 11:38 am

Now I’m scared. The media has a way of making someone look really good just before they do something to us. lol

A little humor – Every Breath Bernanke Takes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipJTqCbETog

dwroberts   December 16th, 2009 - 11:50 am

Quick! Give him a Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award, too!

Are the people in the mainstream media this delusional? Do they live in an alternative universe? Or have they just given up trying to appear as though they’re not shills for Obama and the New World Order?

FastFacts   December 16th, 2009 - 11:59 am

Wouldn’t it be funny if he wasn’t reconfirmed and TIMES was made a fool. Is this part of the agenda and corruption of the media.

CHECK OUT MORE CORRUPTION REPORTS AT: http://www.americanparchment.com

GeneralPatton   December 16th, 2009 - 12:25 pm

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greenspan   December 16th, 2009 - 12:57 pm

hahahahahahahahaha……

Switallas   December 16th, 2009 - 1:11 pm

In other news, the White House declared Howard Dean “irrelevant.”

Just like Time magazine.

BeeMan   December 16th, 2009 - 1:29 pm

This news only makes my recent letter to our illustrious senators opposing Helicopter Ben’s next term to the fed more validated, in my mind. What a worthless rag is Time magazine. To give credit to those or the one for creating the problem…well that just fans my boogie. There are two sides to any money transaction, and Ben made lots of friends in high places, aka, the Insiders, while most people got soaked and Gored (pun intended). Just wait for the next shoe to fall, namely hyperinflation. But since we know who owns the media, I am sure that it will be under reported. Hang onto your Bibles folks. We can’t put any faith into these worldly, so called leaders. Wake up America, and hold unto our freedom.

Tiger Woods   December 16th, 2009 - 2:26 pm

What!!!! I deserve this recognition…..remember Im the 500 million dollar man…..and I can get the ladies….he he he.

testicular man   December 16th, 2009 - 2:30 pm

This and many more reasons why I will never subscribe to the stupid, idiotic and terminally biased TIME magazine…

easye2984   December 16th, 2009 - 2:55 pm

Time magazine? What is that? Never heard of it.

k train   December 16th, 2009 - 3:19 pm

Adolf Hitler was also Time’s man of the year.

Boogy Man   December 16th, 2009 - 3:36 pm

testicular man I agree X2

dmdaughertyColorado   December 16th, 2009 - 3:59 pm

Tiger should have won, he had 14 women (so far, that we know) and thats 2 more people that actually read TIME ragmag!

Eddie   December 16th, 2009 - 4:05 pm

Is TIME owned by MSNBC????

Funny guys, those TIME editors. They were kidding, right?????

moe   December 16th, 2009 - 6:40 pm

seems another award that at one time meant something (peace prize,emmy, etc.)It seems these awards don’t mean squat anymore

bhumble   December 17th, 2009 - 7:08 pm

TIME, another useless media company. How about a random American taxpayer who’s wages were cut by 50% in 2009 on the cover – me?

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