Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke
Dan Winters for TIME
Hoping For A Rebound?
Though he declared in September that the recession was ending, Bernanke says it might feel like a recession for quite a while, partly because beat-up businesses tend to be gun-shy about hiring after a downturn; typically it takes modest growth just to absorb new workers.
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