Bailout, but call it a backstop!
by BoatSurfer600 Repeat after me: this is not a bailout. Credit: @okieyardbird
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by Michael Every single day there are more twists and turns to this new banking panic. In fact, we just learned that the big banks have gotten together to save First Republic. That is good news, because a collapse of First Republic would have been a major catastrophe. But First Republic is just one in … Read more
by laflammaster Most banks that failed were in SF, one in NY. I’ve yet to hear a bank in trouble that’s out of Or near Richmond. Now that the SF run on the banks has been kind of quelled, looks like they need money somewhere else. I’m thinking there are more banks in need of … Read more
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by CharlieFoxtrot Aloha suckers! Silicon Valley Bank’s failed CEO Gregory Becker escapes to his $3.1million Hawaiian hideaway days after being fired, leaving the chaos of the collapse in the dust https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11864495/Silicon-Valley-Banks-failed-CEO-Gregory-Becker-escapes-3-1-million-Hawaiian-hideaway.html Republic Bank President – who who along with other execs sold $12M of stock before bank collapsed – bought Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s … Read more
by Simon Black You know the old joke– “Predictions are hard… especially about the future.” And it’s true, nobody has a crystal ball. But it’s astonishing to see just how horribly wrong the people in charge can be in their predictions, especially about the very near future. You probably remember Joe Biden famously insisted in … Read more
by Digital mix guy At its core, the biggest change to GPT-4 is its ability to work with photos that users upload. One of the most jaw-dropping use cases so far came from an OpenAI video demo that showed how a drawing could be turned into a functional website within minutes. The demonstrator uploaded the … Read more
People can make the change we need. Farmers' protest party win shock Dutch vote victory https://t.co/tlffWNYVop — Renée Hoenderkamp (@DrHoenderkamp) March 16, 2023
This person uses xe/xem pronouns because xe is not entirely human pic.twitter.com/Na3szqnlz4 — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 7, 2023 Drag queens do sexual themed performances in front of a baby who then hands them cash tips with the mom’s help pic.twitter.com/ywEAFy5Uhg — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 1, 2023 https://twitter.com/_/status/1635973802105638913 https://twitter.com/_/status/1630597593255247872 https://twitter.com/_/status/1636055891782033422 https://twitter.com/_/status/1631004465129029642 Biden … Read more
Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, The FDIC regulators have reportedly required any buyer of Signature to agree to give up all cryptocurrency business at the bank… The United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has reportedly asked potential rescuers of some failed U.S. banks not to support any crypto services. The FDIC regulators have asked … Read more
by Chris Black The “legal” versus “illegal” immigration debate just never dies, thanks to the conservative fixation on “doing things the right way.” A scab worker is a scab worker. These foreign workers come to America so they can undercut the American workforce. It doesn’t make it any more moral or acceptable for them to … Read more
First Republic Bank execs quietly sold $12M in stock BEFORE SVB crash: Chairman sold $4.5m, chief credit officer sold $2.5m in trades ending just two days before crash – and head of wealth management sold 73% of his shares worth $3.5m in January Executives sold $11.8 million worth of stock so far this year at … Read more
Bloomberg (via MSN): For many, earning a salary topping $100,000 feels like a mark of success — but how far it goes depends on where you live. In New York City, that annual paycheck is worth just $36,000, after taxes and accounting for the steep cost of living. That’s according to an analysis of 76 of the largest US cities to see where $100,000 goes furthest by SmartAsset, … Read more
via breitbart: Regulators in the San Francisco Bay Area voted Wednesday to eliminate the sale and installation of natural gas-powered furnaces and water heaters over eight years beginning in 2027, ostensibly to limit air pollution. The vote was the latest step taken by left-wing jurisdictions against natural gas — a convenient and relatively clean-burning source of … Read more
by Chris Black Big banks like Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, BOA, Citigroup et al agreed to perform a historic $30 billion unsecured deposit injection in First Republic Bank. This is basically the first private bailout in history. Look, the big banks are helping out a little one out of the goodness of their hearts, … Read more
by: Ramon Tomey (Natural News) Several pension funds in the U.S. and other countries have lost millions of dollars due to their investments in Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, two financial firms that recently collapsed. A March 14 report by Newsweek revealed that pension funds California Public Employees’ Retirement Fund (CalPERS) and California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) incurred … Read more
by Chris Black This is not a huge surprise for anyone really. The usual suspects led by Bob Mendez and Elizabeth Warren, are calling on the departments of the Treasury and Justice to take action after credit card companies’ refusal to track gun purchases. After Visa and Mastercard announced last year that they would track … Read more
by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is just the tip of the iceberg as more than $620 billion in losses across the entire banking sector looms as a financial ticking time bomb. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the banking sector is currently sitting on unrealized losses of well … Read more
He just pressed that big red button. JUST IN – Macron has decided to trigger Article 49.3 to adopt his pension reform plan without a vote in the French National Assembly. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 16, 2023 MORE – The use of Article 49.3 is often described as the "nuclear option". This is because there … Read more
Meat giant Tyson Foods announced that it will close two of its facilities for processing chicken, affecting close to 1,700 jobs. The Springfield, Arkansas-based meat processing company confirmed the closure of its two plants – one in Van Buren, Arkansas and another in Glen Allen, Virginia – to CNBC. The Van Buren facility with 969 … Read more