Is that Ben Bernanke?

The following is a true story.

Date and Time: Monday, October 27th at around 11:35 a.m.

Place: Midtown East, New York City

I was about to walk into the Citicorp building at Lexington Avenue. I was meeting two business executives from Cornell University at a client’s office.

Suddenly I saw a gentleman, neatly but casually dressed without a tie or jacket, standing near the entrance. This gentleman looked very familiar to me. He was not a movie star. In fact, he looked a lot like the nation’s former top central banker.