It's all here from the @washingtonpost:
Yellen wants to bail out all depositors up to an unlimited amount, blowing away FDIC limits, spending money she doesn't have.
It isn't Yellen's job to bail out depositors. In fact, it is EXPRESSLY NOT HER JOB to obligate taxpayer funds to bailout bank depositors.
Note that the WaPo runs a picture from October to suggest Yellen and Powell are on board with this idea.
The Fed is not. /2
Yellen is clearly trying to force the Fed to pivot and go back to the zero-bound with this. And bail out those that were funding the undermining of US institutions and war.
Who in their right mind thinks the "little guy" has more than $250k in deposits?
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In 2008/09 all the FCID bank closures happened after the market closed on Fridays to limit the damage. Today we are treated to a vandalistic "Biden" regime making a big deal out of this DURING trading hours. /2
From a purely political and qualitative standpoint I'd say a number of things are at play here.
For a major SV bank to fail this spectacularly in 24 hours, 72 after the FOMC Chair went full "Resting Hawk Face" smells of a setup to force a "pivot" this weekend./3
More meltdown in the Eurodollar markets this morning on US inflation data.
These markets and the long-end of the US yield curve are hideously mispriced 1/
@SecYellen is selling 2/3's and buying 10/20's
Why? To make the 2/10 spread worse than it should be but also to help @ECB protect US/German credit spreads.
Really?
Who do you think she really works for?
The Fed could provide the market 10's if Yellen would back off.
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This is to support the fiction that the US is headed for a 'historic default' if we don't raise the debt ceiling.
We'll raise the debt ceiling. This is just more Treasury Dept. blackmail of the Fed. Yellen is flying into coffin corner here. /3
Does anyone seriously think markets won't react in real time to the Fed going to 8% and continue holding their breath sending the 2yr to 8.5 percent but the 10yr will stay at 3?
back in November I did a podcast with Pascal Najadi who told the story of Frm. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder visiting Scholz's office with an offer for gas to Gazprom, which was summarily rejected. /2
The big on is that there is nothing telling the Fed to slow down here in any meaningful way.
Most of the pullback in inflation and consumer spending is just baseline effects.
The banks have collateral, loan growth is fine and labor market strong. go another 50 Jay-Pow. /2
Powell is dealing with the hangover from Brainard/Obama's attempt to get rid of him in 2021.
That's why the markets are so stubborn.
It's moronic. Powell's entrenched. They didn't believe him last year either. /3
5000 Swiss troops to protect oligarchs at #Davos2023.
This is what you order up when you're scared of the people.
Here's a reminder that I saw Peak Davos in November 2021. It was over the COVID-9/11 Jab Protests... among other things. tomluongo.me/2021/11/21/hav…
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Austrian protests, Nov. 2021.
It doesn't matter that they buried the lede for months. The anger is still there. /2