Dangerous centralized banking is on the minds of many Americans as they see this week’s headlines about the second-largest US bank plummeting into failure and as they weigh and measure the rescue plans.
The question is whether what is happening to the banking industry in the US is a notable ‘revolution of massive irresponsibility’ of the nation’s bankers, civil servants, and politicians or if the country is at the end of a Democrat Joe Biden-planned Chinese Communist takeover.
One thing is simple to see, that if the Democrats were not in charge right now our security would not be in so much turmoil everywhere.
Whatever is happening to our nation and our personal banking future, the result is the same – the American people have been betrayed and will be made to suffer, except for the well-connected and elite power seekers.
One looks no further than to the government’s plan to fix the mess we are in. They are going to give the messed up bank to a massive, powerful banking player.
🚨#BREAKING: First Republic Bank has been closed by regulators, as this is the 2nd largest bank failure in U.S. history. First Republic Bank will be acquired by JPMorgan after rescue efforts fails pic.twitter.com/0tB2lHkn2W
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 1, 2023
Here is what is happening, as reported by Zero Hedge in a very detailed article on the topic:
Heading into the weekend, US regulators were facing a dilemma over the fate of First Republic Bank: either let the insolvent California bank fail and bail in some (or all) of the $30 billion in uninsured rescue deposits given to the bank by a consortium of banks including JPMorgan, BofA, Goldman, and others so as not to appear like the Biden admin is bailing-out big, bad banks again a la 2008, but in the process restarting the bank run panic as an impairment of all bank depositors would reverse Janet Yellen’s vow not to do just that in the aftermath of the SVB collapse, or bail out FRC including all of its depositors, both retail and institutional, insured and uninsured, and spark a new political crisis where republicans accuse democrats of rescuing Jamie Dimon and his banker pals.
In the end, early on Monday morning, the US unveiled a hybrid solution – after all other attempts at a private rescue effort failed – one where the FDIC would seize the insolvent First Republic, the 14th largest US bank by assets, making it the second biggest bank failure in US history, and immediately sell the bulk of its assets and all of its deposits to JPMorgan after a sham but “highly competitive bidding process” had taken place over the weekend (one in which virtually nobody wanted to participate as nobody would buy FRC without explicit government backstops, which in the end is precisely what they ended up getting on FRC’s IO and CRE loan portfolio) while keeping FRC’s toxic Interest-only mortgages to Hamptons’ billionaires.
According to the FDIC announcement, JPMorgan would assume all of First Republic’s $92 billion in deposits — insured and uninsured, including the $5 billion in deposits given by JPM to First Republic on March 16. It also buys most of the bank’s assets, including about $173 billion in loans and $30 billion in securities.
As part of the agreement, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will share losses with JPMorgan on First Republic’s loans. The agency estimated that its insurance fund would take a hit of $13 billion in the deal, which is precisely the hole that prevented a private sector solution from being reached. JPMorgan also said it would receive $50 billion in financing from the FDIC to consummate the deal.
More importantly, the FDIC and JPMorgan also entered into a “loss-share transaction on single family, residential and commercial loans it purchased of the former First Republic Bank.” As part of this transaction, the FDIC as receiver and JPMorgan will share in the losses and potential recoveries on the loans covered by the loss-share agreement.
The outlet went on:
The second largest US bank failure in history become a fact after the San Francisco-based First Republic lost $100 billion in deposits in a March run following the collapse of fellow Bay Area lender Silicon Valley Bank, a testament to the catastrophic supervision of the Mary Daly-led San Fran Fed, which was more worried about rainbow flags and DEI than making sure banks in its regions were, you know, solvent. It limped along for weeks after a group of America’s biggest banks came to its rescue with a $30 billion deposit. Those deposits will be repaid after the deal closes, JPMorgan said.
And with the collapse of FRC, three of the four largest-ever U.S. bank failures have occurred in the past two months. First Republic, with some $233 billion in assets at the end of the first quarter, ranks just behind the 2008 collapse of Washington Mutual. Rounding out the top four are Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, a New York-based lender that also failed in March.
Meanwhile, just as we said a month ago when we joked that the regional bank crisis is meant to make JPM even bigger and more systematically important than ever, as it pays just 0.01% on its deposits as it remains the only truly “safe” bank for US depositors, in effect collecting a $90 billion annual subsidy courtesy of its TBTF status…
JPM's "Too Biggest To Never Fail" subsidy: if it paid 4% on its $2.3 trillion in deposits, it would pay out $90BN per year. Instead it pays nothing to fund its assets thanks to 0.01% deposit rates pic.twitter.com/w7D4oCZ2HN
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 25, 2023
First Republic and Washington Mutual are now substantially owned by JPMorgan.
