Jezebel: Sheila Bair

Powerful Ladies Subjected To Unfortunate Surroundings

Jessica Coen — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:55:00 EDT

[Washington, October 5: MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, Sheila Bair, Christine Varney and Elizabeth Warren sit in front of the world's ugliest backdrop for the Fortune Most Powerful Women summit. Image via Getty.]

Tim Geithner: Is There Any "There" There?

Megan Carpentier — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:00:00 EST

While the Sunday shows rage around us, Moe and I call for Geithner's head, Larry Summers' ass, parse the Brangelina break-up reports and Joan Allen's necklace-of-horror, and, finally, debate which, if any, Republicans we'd allow to examine our vaginas. More »

Sheila Bair Keeps Proving Everyone Else Wrong

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:20:00 EDT

Former editor Moe Tkacik singles out Jezebel favorite Sheila Bair (who Chip Somodevilla manages to capture quite fetchingly despite Vogue's misgivings) in her list of the Ladies of The Financial Crisis, most of whom we should have listened to. [Clusterstock] More »

The Real Reason Women's Magazines Suck

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:00:00 EDT

CosMarieGlamVogBazElle sure can be a tedious read; from month to month, our favorite ladymags seem to delight in the twin pleasures of reprinting editorials wholesale and publishing story after story with a distinct Groundhog Monthly ring. Ever wondered why? More »

Otherwise Known As Sheila The Great

Anna Holmes — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:10:00 EDT

[Washington, D.C., July 24. Image via Getty]

Sarah Palin's Wardrobe, The Universe Completely Crazy

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST

The end of the week is a time to sit and digest the insanity that the week has spawned. More news on Sarah Palin's style? Check. Canadian Parliamentary crisis? Check. A Supreme Court case on Barack Obama's birth certificate? Yup, got that, too. Between all of that, plus calls for Robert Mugabe to resign, Tim Geithner to pull his head out of his (possibly sexist) ass, and Andrew Cuomo not caring about black people, it's damn lucky that I have Racialicious' Latoya Peterson along on this ride to Crazytown (not nearly as awesome as Funkytown, by the way). More »

Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST

FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair tops the Wall Street Journal's list of "The 50 Women To Watch 2008", which attempts to line up the top 50 women in corporate America today. Despite being the lone government employee on the list, Bair tops it not just because of her work in finance as the chair of the FDIC but because, more importantly, her name is bandied about as a black horse candidate for Treasury Secretary in an Obama Administration. So what should you know about her? More »