Bair to step down as FDIC chairman in July


WASHINGTON: Sheila Bair, a free market advocate who helped oversee the most dramatic bail-out of the financial system since the Great Depression, will leave the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp on July 8, the agency announced on Monday.

Bair is finishing her five-year term, and passing off the chairmanship of a reinvigorated FDIC with vast new powers to take down failing financial giants.

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