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The fate of First Republic Bank is in question, as pressure mounts on the embattled lender after it revealed a massive fall in deposits during the first quarter. As Wall Street debates the cause of First Republic’s (FRC) troubles, one analyst blames the nation’s top financial regulators. Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen were “advocates of the strategy called ‘go big at the Fed’,” Chris Whalen, Whalen Global Advisors Chairman tells Yahoo Finance. “After 2018…we had a big problem in the money markets, so I think Chairman Powell…panicked in Washington, and they decided to provide more reserves.” As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the central bank acted again, bringing the Fed’s balance sheet to nearly $9 trillion. “What they did, in essence, was throw a lot of money at a perceived problem, but they’ve created a real problem now, which is that interest rates have risen,” Whalen says. “The Fed has created a huge market risk, so these outliers like Silicon Valley, First Republic, have tipped over in a difficult funding market.” In his full interview, Whalen spoke with Brad Smith and Julie Hyman about the issues First Republic (FRC) is facing.
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00:00:05: Powell and Yellen’s strategy
00:01:10: Huge market risk
00:01:35: Unrealized losses on balance sheets
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