Loaded for Bair
Why sexism is behind the attacks on the FDIC chief.
By Maureen Tkacik
Posted Sunday, August 2, 2009 – 9:25pm
I recently heard that Vogue was desperate to find women prominent in the colossal effort to fix the financial crisis to profile. Um, hello! FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair is arguably the most powerful woman in the world right now, a fact for which we should all be grateful. Universally regarded as the sole member of the Bush administration’s crisis rescue team to have recognized early both the magnitude of the fraudulence in the mortgage business and the magnitude of the risk that fraud posed to the financial system, Bair has distinguished herself as not only our most populist regulator but, if a recent New Yorker profile is to be believed, our most intellectually curious and competent regulator as well. Read more…