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Newsguy
10-25-2005, 12:05 AM
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051025/ap_on_bi_ge/bush_fed"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051024/capt.dcsa10710241823.bush_fed_dcsa107.jpg?x=130&amp;y= 94&amp;sig=rQhDApAgcohhBkYKtciuaQ--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Ben Bernanke, President Bush's top economic adviser, speaks in the Oval Office at the White House after Bush named him to take over the Federal Reserve from retiring Alan Greenspan, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 24, 2005. It was the third time in as many years the president has turned to the 51-year-old Bernanke for a sensitive post. Bush named him to the Fed board in 2002, then made him chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers earlier this year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0" /></a>AP - Ben Bernanke, a plain-speaking former economics professor, was chosen Monday by President Bush to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, the most influential economic policy job in the world.</p><br clear=all>

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