Man of the Year
Congratulations are in order for Ben Shalom Bernanke, Time magazine's 2009 Person of the Year. A lifelong Republican and conservative economist, Bernanke was appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve board in 2006 by President George W Bush and confirmed in that position by President Barak Obama after his inauguration in 2009.
Bernanke's actions in both the Bush and Obama administrations have been credited with preventing the stock market collapse of 2008 from becoming a catastrophic world wide depression.