By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com

Baltimore — (TFN): It’s not an award I would want. First Putin, then Obama, now Bernanke. Big Ben is not joining the best of company with his “Person of the year” award. If history is an indication, the Fed boss’ approval rating will be significantly lower in the next twelve months.

As if being the master of the secret domain known as the Federal Reserve isn’t a hard enough job to handle, Time goes and slaps Bernanke on the cover and tells us the award is due not because of where Bernanke got us today, but because of where we have not ventured.

Multicurrency distortions make multicurrency loans look better than they have for some time.

In April 2006, Aurelian Resources (CA:ARU) made the gold discovery of the century. It was a once-in-a-lifetime find, the kind most miners can only dream of.

Qatar’s Central Bank Governor, Shaikh Abdullah bin Saud al Thani, has CONFIRMED plans for a single currency among the Gulf States. It’s on track for 2010.