By Aaron Task In the 1999 film Arlington Road, Jeff Bridges plays a professor who becomes obsessed with investigating his neighbors. After several plot twists, Bridges’ character becomes a suspect in a terrorism investigation.
“They have to put a face on it… to tell a story,” he says with resignation.
That line got me wondering: Who is the face of the stock market?
At various points, different people have embodied the stock market, putting a human face on what can often be a mysterious and indescribable beast.
For example, Alan Greenspan was the face of the market in the 1990s and early 2000s. As chairman of …read more
