Bernanke's Life in Photos

Ben Bernanke: A Life The nerd from Dillon, South Carolina rises to the most powerful job in American banking
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For most of his career, Bernanke worked within the quiet confines of academia. At the relatively young age of 31, he received tenure at Princeton, where he specialized in studying the Depression. When this photo was taken in 2001, he was the Chairman of the university's Department of Economics.

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