Bernanke - TIME Person of the Year 2009

[Ted Harris]

I've heard and read varying opinions of the job Bernanke has played during our financial crisis .... TIME magazine picked him for the following reason:

But the main reason Ben Shalom Bernanke is TIME's Person of the Year for 2009 is that he is the most important player guiding the world's most important economy. His creative leadership helped ensure that 2009 was a period of weak recovery rather than catastrophic depression...

Here's the article link ....

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947251,00.html

What do you think?