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"Bernanke didn't just learn from history; he wrote it himself and was damned if he was going to repeat it," said Richard Stengel, managing editor of the magazine.

"The recession was the story of the year. Without Ben Bernanke it would have been a lot worse."


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There is a lot of historical evidence to suggest that magazine cover stories are generally the peak of a craze/fad/phenomenon etc in that they signal the last of the masses jumping on board and thus the beginning of the end. What I mean to say is that they are often a contrarian signal.
Bernankes career must be about to tank in my opinion. What would do this is further economic crises showing that his stimulus policies havent worked or if they have they were a mere bandaid and not a true resolution. We will see.
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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/bernanke-and-the-cover-curse/

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So Time magazine has named Ben Bernanke Person of the Year. Be afraid, be very afraid.

The magazine cover curse is a well-known phenomenon: you should always short the stock of a company whose CEO is the subject of a glowing cover story in a major magazine.

Plus there’s the specific Time effect. Let’s not forget the 1985 joint portrait of Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, which concluded that Ms. Lauper was the one who’d remain a star.

And above all, let’s not forget this:


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if only curses and superstition were real
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it may not be a scientific point in precise terms Neil but surely you can see even from the minimal explanation I put in my post the basis behind this type of 'curse' as you call it. Its not voodoo - its social psychology.