Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s handling of the economy, accusing him of trying to put up to 2 million Americans out of work as part of the central bank’s efforts to bring down inflation.
Warren made the comments in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on March 19 in which she called the Fed’s interest rate hikes “extraordinary” and “extreme.”
The Fed is widely expected to raise interest rates by a quarter percentage point again this week, despite the collapse of two major banks, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank.
“I do not think he should raise rates,” the senator said of Powell, adding that her reasoning for this is twofold.
“The first is to remind Chair Powell he has a dual mandate. Yes, he is responsible for dealing with inflation, but he is also responsible for employment. And what Chair Powell is trying to do, and he has said fairly explicitly, is that they are trying to, in effect, slow down the economy so that—this is by the Fed’s own estimate—2 million people will lose their jobs,” Warren said.
She then went on to note that other factors are increasing inflation such as price gouging, continued supply chain issues, and Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
“Raising interest rates doesn’t do anything to solve those problems. All it does, at least by the way the chair wants to do this, is put millions of people out of work,” Warren said.
Powell ‘Failing’ in Fight Against Inflation
The Massachusetts senator, who also noted that she had opposed President Joe Biden’s nomination of Powell to serve another four years as chairman of the Fed owing to his views on regulation, accused Powell of “failing” in his roles of overseeing big American banks and handling inflation.
In a separate interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” the Democrat accused Powell of taking a “flamethrower” to bank regulations during the Trump administration, stripping back regulatory measures such as the Dodd-Frank Act, which was enacted in 2010 in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, to ensure a safer U.S. financial system.
“And what happened was exactly what we should have predicted, and that is the banks, these big, multi-billion-dollar banks, loaded up on risk; they boosted their short-term profits; they gave themselves huge bonuses and big salaries; and they exploded their banks. And so where we stand now is now the federal government’s got to step back in and back up these multi-billion-dollar banks,” Warren said.
The senator also called for an independent investigation of the Fed and the “whole regulatory system” after the central bank announced on March 13 it is conducting a probe into the supervision and regulation of tech-focused SVB following its collapse. Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr is leading the review.
In a statement announcing the probe, Powell said that the events surrounding the demise of SVB “demand a thorough, transparent, and swift review by the Federal Reserve.”
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
“We need to have humility, and conduct a careful and thorough review of how we supervised and regulated this firm, and what we should learn from this experience,” said Barr.
Federal regulators shut down SVB on March 10 after it suffered the second-largest U.S. banking failure since Washington Mutual during the 2008 financial crisis.
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Three million unhoused Democrat imported jobless illegals on the government dole,,,add in 2 million more government destroyed jobs, and the Democrats planned program for the bankrupting of the American economy and country proceed on plan, with bankrupt banks like the Silicone Valley bank, whose Chinese investors get made whole by Democrat nominated banking overseers, while American individual depositors take a financial bath,,,just the tip of the Democrat Alinksy inspired, designed financial iceberg about to get run into, born of the concept of overwhelming the system from within.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Is nothing but a self-serving, dastardly Democrat, just babbling.
“The Fed is widely expected to raise interest rates by a quarter percentage point again this week, despite the collapse of two major banks, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank.”
“And what happened was exactly what we should have predicted, and that is the banks, these big, multi-billion-dollar banks, loaded up on risk; they boosted their short-term profits; they gave themselves huge bonuses and big salaries; and they exploded their banks. And so where we stand now is now the federal government’s got to step back in and back up these multi-billion-dollar banks,” Warren said.
So in essence the two major woke banks, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank destroyed themselves with their woke policies and bad risks management.
But not to worry, the federal government will bail them out for their greed and bad management.
* SVB, Signature Bank and Credit Suisse donated $1.2M to Dems since 2017
* Silicon Valley Bank donated $73 million to Black Lives Matter-related groups,
* In the summer of 2020, Silicon Valley Bank pledged to increase its commitment to ‘diversity, equity and inclusion.’
* CEO Greg Becker said SVB had an employee matching program for donations that focused on ‘pandemic-response, social justice, sustainability and supporting women, black and Latinx emerging talent and other underrepresented groups.’
Warren is about as “qualified” as Pelosi when it comes to STUPIDITY! Anyone who would say “And what happened was exactly what we should have predicted, and that is the banks, these big, multi-billion-dollar banks, loaded up on risk; they boosted their short-term profits; they gave themselves huge bonuses and big salaries; and they exploded their banks. And so where we stand now is now the federal government’s got to step back in and back up these multi-billion-dollar banks,” Warren said…… QUESTION:. So what exactly happened under the OBUMMER and Filthy Joe’s 8 years of BS?? Bankers got rich and the and the American Public PAID THE TAB! SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE….. ONLY THE BS EXCUSES CHANGE!
IDIOT!