Time Person of the Year 2009: Ben Bernanke

Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2009 is Ben Bernanke, Chair of the US Federal Reserve. In other words, Ben Bernanke is the man who is in control of the US money supply, and therefore a singularly powerful player on the world economic stage. It's not too surprising that...

Americans may be sleep walking into an economic Depression

Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the U.S. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive - a sure sign the world's richest country faces economic crisis. We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street...