Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke The 56-year-old chairman of the Fed is TIME's 2009 Person of the Year Photographs by Dan Winters for TIME
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Brothers in Arms
Bernanke meets with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner every week; during the Bush Administration, when Geithner served as head of the New York Fed, he was essentially Bernanke's Ambassador to Wall Street.

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