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Bernanke: A Bad Call ... TIME has got to be kidding in naming Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Person of the Year for 2009 [Dec. 28-Jan. 4]. In my opinion, the benchmark for this title must have been considerably lowered for this man to receive it. The choice of Bernanke is an insult to all the hardworking Americans across this great country who because of the routine miscalculations and failed leadership of this Federal Reserve chairman lost their home, financial investments, retirement account or steady employment through no fault of their own. James P. Dinger Ruther Glen...
TIME has got to be kidding in naming Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Person of the Year for 2009 [Dec. 28-Jan. 4]. In my opinion, the benchmark for this title must have been considerably lowered for this man to receive it. The choice of Bernanke is an insult to all the hardworking Americans across this great country who because of the routine miscalculations and failed leadership of this Federal Reserve chairman lost their home, financial investments, retirement account or steady employment through no fault of their own. James P. Dinger, RUTHER GLEN...
DEFNE BAYRAK, wife of the double agent who killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence officer in a Dec. 30 suicide bombing on an American base in Afghanistan...
...believed that Jordanian physician Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi would help it infiltrate Islamist extremist groups--even find Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's elusive No. 2. But this informant, it turned out, was also an assassin, whose Dec. 30 suicide bombing of an Afghanistan CIA base killed seven agency employees. Officials are still trying to figure out how they were duped...
...economic downturn. On Jan. 13, the panel questioned the chiefs of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. The 10-member bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, created by Congress last year, is tasked with reporting on issues ranging from mortgage fraud to regulatory lapses by Dec. 15. Some analysts say the hearings are an important step toward reform; others call them a distraction, saying the causes of the crisis are clear...