Speaker Pelosi: Financial Markets Commission Members To Be Named ‘Imminently’

The headline sort of says it all. At her weekly press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said we’d soon know the names of the men and women appointed to serve on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. In fact, she said we’d know “imminently.” Leaders of both parties have spent weeks evaluating a range of experts, seeking a delicate balance between expertise and purity–many of the people who truly understand financial markets are also simply too close to the players that caused the meltdown, and that inconvenient reality has caused the selection process to move more slowly than expected. Additionally, some on the left are concerned that none of the names under consideration reflect a sufficiently skeptical view of the financial industry.