FDIC and the Financial Crisis: Why Liberals Love Sheila Bair's Regulatory Views

Ryan Lizza’s lengthy and fawning profile of the socially liberal and anti-market Republican Sheila Bair of FDIC, who “has become an unlikely hero to economic liberals, who see her as the counterweight to the more Wall Street-centric view often ascribed to Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary.” We don’t think it was unlikely at all.