Obama: Euphoria and Phobia
In the last December issue, the Time magazine traditionally calls the “Man of the Year”, a person who has more others influenced world events. In 2008, he was the elected US President Barack Obama, and this time the chairman of the American Federal Reserve System, thanks to which the year became the period of “slow recovery”, and not “catastrophic depression”. So the cover of the magazine was decorated with a portrait of Ben Shalom Bernanke!