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Chieftain1776
12-16-2009, 06:28 PM
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dannno
12-16-2009, 06:31 PM
What issue is that?

Chieftain1776
12-16-2009, 06:38 PM
What issue is that?

It wasn't Person of the Year but it was a cover:
Rubin, Greenspan & Summers Feb. 15, 1999 (http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19990215,00.html)

Bruno
12-16-2009, 06:43 PM
oh, the irony is priceless!

Chieftain1776
12-16-2009, 06:48 PM
Wow! I'm actually reading the '99 cover story (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990206-1,00.html) and it's full of hero worship and this gem (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990206-6,00.html#ixzz0Zu0uK0UR):
To operate effectively in this new world, Rubin has remade the Treasury into an organization that is "more like an investment bank," says Tim Geithner, the 37-year-old Under Secretary for International Affairs.

Read more:

NYgs23
12-16-2009, 06:52 PM
The inside story of how the Three Marketeers have prevented a global economic meltdown--so far

Yes...so far.

James Madison
12-16-2009, 07:43 PM
Reminds me of several previous men of the year...

Slutter McGee
12-16-2009, 08:52 PM
Volker was the only decent Fed chairman. Understood that even though unemployment sucks....inflations sucks even more.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee