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President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats would face steep hurdles if they were to replace FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg.

JP Morgan Chase will take over the assets of First Republic bank after it collapsed in the second American bank failure in the past two months.

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are leading a bipartisan group of senators in introducing legislation that would allow federal regulators to take back “all or part of” the compensation bank executives received in the five years preceding the event of another bank failure.

In a system of competitive banking, there will always be banks that misjudge the risks they face, and sometimes this will mean they fail.

Fiscally sound banks will probably sue the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for charging them higher fees to offset the bailout of unsound banks, Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.

Sixteen Republican Attorneys General are blaming President Joe Biden’s leftist climate and energy agenda for helping to crash a major Silicon Valley bank.

Following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, reviews of the company’s internal practices have revealed that loans to insiders tripled to $219 million before the bank failed.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) extended the bidding period for the Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, after “substantial interest from multiple parties” and will continue to operate the Bank to “stabilize” the institution and “market the franchise.”

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign stated they would return political donations tied to the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, according to USA Today.

By informing the public that their money is only safe in those big banks the Democrat party favors, everyone will deposit their money in the big banks and effectively bankrupt community banks or force them to give up the ghost to the big banks.

SVB Financial Group, the former parent company of the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank, filed for 11 protection on Friday in New York bankruptcy court.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday that Chinese depositors will be made whole while community banks will have to pay higher fees. 

The chances of the United States falling into a recession in the next 12 months have increased to 35 percent because of the “near-term uncertainty around the economic effects of small bank stress,” Goldman Sachs warned Thursday.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “MTP Daily,” Rep. Josh Harder (D-CA) argued that covering deposits above the $250,000 limit in the case of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) means “the genie is out of the bottle” and the limit on deposits

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that “We’re going to increase” the amount of bank deposits protected by the FDIC above the maximum of $250,000. Clyburn stated, “I do believe things

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has triggered federal investigations by DOJ and the SEC, according to Wall Street Journal sources.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) acknowledged that the fees for the Deposit Insurance Fund that is being used to backstop Silicon Valley Bank depositors are ultimately paid by the customers, not the banks. Khanna

Silicon Valley essentially put the cost of ordinary corporate treasury prudence onto the banking system and got rewarded for it when the government broke its own rules and agreed to back even the largest deposits at Silicon Valley Bank.

Warnings have emerged of a wider banking collapse, with a leading financial expert warning that Credit Suisse may be the next to fall.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) plans to try and auction off the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) for a second time, according to the Wall Street Journal, after the first attempt failed on Sunday.

“We could be on tenterhooks all week waiting to see who else is getting taken out,” Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.

Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney said in an interview on Saturday on Larry Kudlow’s eponymously named radio show that a government bailout of the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank could deepen the panic.

President Joe Biden on Sunday took credit for creating a new lending mechanism to backstop banks after the banking meltdown over the weekend in which two banks collapsed due in part to increased interest rates meant to tamp down Biden’s soaring inflation. 

According to former employees and customers, Silicon Valley Bank had multiple problems — including systemic tech issues — long before the bank’s collapse.

The U.S. government on Sunday sought to affirm confidence in the U.S. banking system by announcing protection for all depositors in Silicon Valley Bank. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen approved measures to resolve the failure of Silicon Valley Bank “in a

Police were reportedly called to Silicon Valley Bank’s Manhattan branch on Friday after depositors attempting to withdraw funds were locked out of the bank.

Chris Whalen, chairman of Whalen Global Advisors, blamed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVP) in a Friday interview on Forward Guidance with host Jack Farley.

The sudden implosion of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is sending shock waves through the financial system and the technology sector.

Money rained down on a Southern California highway on Friday after heaps of cash flew out the back door of an armored truck. 

Joe Biden’s younger brother James received a series of “unusually generous” bank loans during the 1970s, while the former vice president served on the Senate Banking Committee.

(Reuters) — The FBI is investigating how hackers infiltrated computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for several years beginning in 2010 in a breach senior FDIC officials believe was sponsored by China’s military, people with knowledge of the matter said.

On July 13 Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH-4) questioned Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Martin Gruenberg and suggested the application of “high risk” categorization to gun sellers screams Operation Choke Point.

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While some optimistic members of Congress have recently claimed that Operation Choke Point is winding down, out in the real world small business owners like Brian Lynn are learning otherwise.

Tuesday’s subcommittee hearing on Operation Choke Point is likely to be just the beginning of even stronger efforts by members of Congress to call executive agencies to account for their ongoing abuses of power as part of Operation Choke Point. Whether Congress will choose to exercise its constitutional authority and fire out-of-control executive bureaucrats as a first step in reasserting its legitimate powers remains to be seen.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seems to be playing a much larger role in the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point these days. But you wouldn’t know that from the gentle questioning of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on Capitol Hill.