A war of words ends with the Democrats in charge of a key regulator
A boardroom bust-up at the FDIC reveals President Biden’s distaste for big banks
“POWER GRAB”. An “attempt to politicise our regulators for their own gain”. “Extremist destruction of institutional norms.” The rhetoric flying around Washington sounds like the criticism once levelled against President Donald Trump about hot-button issues from border security to pollution controls. Instead, it is Republicans who have directed these barbs at Democrats in recent days, focused on something that, on the surface, seems far duller: the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency tasked with protecting savers from bank busts.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Regulatory flex”
Finance & economics January 8th 2022
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