Person of the Year 2009 - TIME

The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. How the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic catastrophe Christopher Morris / VII for TIMETIME's Managing Editor Richard Stengel talks with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during an interview in Washington, DC Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sat down on Dec. 8, 2009 with TIM