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the regional banks are really getting hammered here today. investors are looking for anything that looks remotely like svb. so they look at some of the west coast regional banks and hammering those. first republic down sharply here. that number is not correct. and pathwest is down this morning as well. charles schwab which is also a west coast money manager is down 8%. we re watching those closely. other banks are down. the big national banks are also down 1%, 2% this morning. you re going to see a lot of unease in the banking sector. it s not necessarily concerns about their balance sheets. it s concerns about profitability and what i mean by that, these banks are going to have to start paying more interest for depositors to keep depositors happy, to keep the deposits in their banks. that means they re going to make less profit. that s one thing you re seeing in the banking sector. overall, futures are just barely mixed. this could have been a very different looking day here today i
investors started telling their companies that the startups they invested in, get your money out of. there a classic run on the bank. i think what is really clear is we knew when the fed was jacking up interest rates you would find weaknesses in the system. something would break. in this case, these banks broke. we talk about whether this was the whether it s a bailout. yeah. you say clearly is. taxpayer money is being taxpayer money is not being used. it is to think so. but it s not the case. taxpayer money is backing this. there are two ways that we are bailing out these banks right now. when we re talking about bailing out the banks and the depositors, what we re really talking about is bailing out and capitalists backing the companies that are here. there is not enough money in the insurance fund that is paid for
overall in the stock market. but in the banking sector, we ll be watching very, very closely. there is still some unease there. overall. if you re a mid-sized bank or banking with a mid-sized bank, is this going to hurt them? are people less likely to go to go to something like that? your money is insured up to $250,000. lo looks like the government is going to insure that your money is safe. that is something the banks will be facing here. i think the federal backstop means the balance sheets are not the issue for the banks. it s their profitability that will be in question going forward here. okay. that s good advice. everyone is searching for advice right now. consumers will check back in with you it at the top of the 8:00 a.m. hour. the president is going to speak in just moments. in the meantime, joining us is democrat senator tammy baldwin. she was on the call with the president for the biden administration, i should say, about the silicon valley bank
right. banking 101, managing interest rate risks, that so, senator, you don t regret that vote? no. i don t regret that vote. listen, i think 2155 bill, i think it put in place a appropriate level of regulation on mid-sized banks. looking at it now, is there the appropriate amount of regulation on these banks or would you be in favor of voting to reinstitute things like the stress tests for banks like this? i certainly think moving forward that we need to come back to those questions. time changes circumstances. and i think it s appropriate for us to re-examine that. you voted why did you vote against that legislation in 2018? were you worried about something like this? you know, i think that at appropriate amount of capitalization and regulation should be required especially, you know, there was a big lobby to get the community banks out from under the regulation of dodd-frank especially the very small ones. i didn t think that the regional