What Really Happened with First Republic Bank Big Banksters of the world rejoice… – The FDIC (funded by everyone’s bank deposits nationwide) took over FRB this past weekend and conducted an auction with Big Banks to find a buyer. – JPMorgan stepped in and offered to buy First Republic, but only if the US Government guaranteed to backstop any losses. – The FDIC agreed. – JPM bought FRB, getting all the “healthy” assets and deposits for pennies on the dollar and the FDIC (meaning everyone with bank deposits nationwide) kept the toxic assets. – The toxic assets consist of “interest-only”…
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