COVER

Person of the Year 2009: Ben Bernanke

The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. Thank the man who runs the Federal Reserve, our mild-mannered economic overlord

Runners-Up

General Stanley McChrystal, The Chinese Worker, Nancy Pelosi and Usain Bolt

LETTERS

GLOBAL ADVISER

Young Turk (Check In)

An Istanbul landmark gets a slick revamp

A Rum Time (Grapevine)

Artisan producers from Antigua to Venezuela are persuading sophisticated drinkers to sip their rum neat