Thursday, July 24, 2008

FDIC Chairman Shelia Bair Is Out Of Control

From Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis:
In a sad twist of irony Shelia Bair is accusing blogs of being "out of control".

Sadder still is the fact that San Francisco Business Times writer Mark Calvey agrees. Please consider the incredibly inane article FDIC learns it ignores bloggers at its peril.
The federal agency insuring bank deposits learned that it can't afford to ignore the blogs following its seizure this month of IndyMac Bank, the largest bank failure since the 1980s.

"The blogs were a bit out of control," Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., told the San Francisco Business Times after a speech in San Francisco this week....

Much more
from Mish.