The Resume

(September 5, 1927-December 8, 2019)
Born in Cape May, New Jersey
Chair of the Federal Reserve (1979-87)
Chair of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board (2009-11)

Why he might be annoying:

He said, 'The greatest strategic error of my adult life was to take my wife to Maine on our honeymoon on a fly-fishing trip.'
His Washington, DC, apartment was littered with newspapers, cigar butts and fishing flies.
On weekends, he would haul a suitcase of dirty laundry down to the Virginia home of his daughter, who admitted he was 'just sort of cheap.'
He said he regretted not speaking out against deregulation of banking and financial markets.
He said risky financial activities were 'like pornography: you know it when you see it.'
He said a key part of his job at the Fed was 'to be as boring as possible.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He was credited with eliminating the double-digit inflation of the late 70s.
Comparing him to other Federal Reserve chairmen, Ron Paul said, 'He was more personable and smarter than the others, including the more recent board chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke.'
He headed the commission that got Swiss banks to pay $1.25 billion to Holocaust victims and their heirs.
He was chosen by the United Nations to investigate possible corruption in the Iraqi oil for food program.
He proposed regulations to keep banks from undertaking risky activities such as proprietary trading and sponsoring hedge funds, saying 'If you are going to be a commercial bank, with all the protections that implies, you shouldn’t be doing this stuff. If you are doing this stuff, you shouldn’t be a commercial bank.'
After the Obama administration dubbed the proposals 'the Volcker rule,' he joked 'The other advantage of it is that if doesn't fly, they can throw me under the bus.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 38]
• I am an Episcopalian
• I Attended Harvard
• I Attended London School of Economics
• I Attended Princeton
• I Died in 2019 (Ranked: 92)
• I Married in 2010
• Linked to Barack Obama
• Linked to Ronald Reagan
• Look at Me, I'm on the Cover of Time
• Look at Me, I'm with Richard Nixon
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• Look at My Magazine Cover
• Male Cigar Smokers
• People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People [1979]
• Profiles 31751-32000 (Ranked: 31809)
• Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2010 [May 2010]
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20191208)
• We Eloped

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 10 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 16 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 76.92% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 53 Votes: 49.06% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 134 Votes: 58.21% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 45 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 53 Votes: 69.81% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 28 Votes: 53.57% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 88 Votes: 43.18% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 113 Votes: 67.26% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 29 Votes: 65.52% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 18 Votes: 66.67% Annoying