Ben Bernanke was responsible for the financial markets collapse and ensued recission starting at the middle of 2008. Ben Bernanke with his policy of decreasing the interest rates over and over since he assumed the helm of the Federal Reserve Bank caused the artificial soaring of home prices with the ultimate burst that bottom rocking the economy. Considering all that the Time Magazine selecting him as 'the Person of the year'is a joke.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/current
