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
Dan Winters for TIME

No Rest for the Weary
Though the Fed is forecasting slightly stronger growth for the next twelve years, it still expects 7% unemployment as late as 2012. "I really regret all the hardship," Bernanke says. "The scars of unemployment can last a long time."

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