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...last time a Fed chair gave a television interview was in 1987 when Alan Greenspan appeared on Meet the Press - an interview that was followed the next week by the largest single-day drop in stock market history. So why Bernanke's change of heart? He responded to that question quite plainly: "It's an extraordinary time. This is a chance for me, I think, to talk to America directly." Speaking with Pelley from the Federal Reserve and his hometown of Dillon, South Carolina, Bernanke said that if markets can be stabilized he expects the recession to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...Congress will do what it believes is its job. It will question AIG, its employees, and the firms that benefited from getting money from AIG's bailout pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIG's Bailout and the Price of Doing Business | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...Spiritual Solution? I find it ironic that anyone in medicine would question whether faith and belief can heal when a good part of medicine's effectiveness can actually be traced to the power of belief: the placebo effect [Feb. 23]. Scientifically, we can see that creating a positive belief in the possibility of being healed can actually facilitate healing. Alfred A. Barrios, Culver City, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...British film critic Anthony Lane once posed a rather devastating question. “What is the point of Demi Moore?” he asked. Now, after this year’s Oscar season has finally come to a close, Lane’s question deserves a broader application. Demi Moore aside, in a time when real, palpable problems shake our country, what is the point of Hollywood...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: A Confederacy of Dunces | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...Aside from new and improved special effects, what Hollywood seems to have been producing lately is noise, noise that we don’t need. In light of everything threatening the fabric of this country, what is the point of a place like that? Lane’s question, albeit in an altered form, deserves an answer...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: A Confederacy of Dunces | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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