Morning Jolt: If Barney Frank Were a Republican, He’d Be the Media’s Banking-Crisis Villain

On the menu today: There's something absolutely fascinating going on in the coverage of the current banking crisis. One of the two (or three? Four?) banks at the center of the story has a really prominent former congressman on its board of directors — a co-architect of how the federal government regulates banks. He's known for his acerbic comments, and he's doing a bunch of interviews right now in a hasty effort at reputation management. But you really have to look around to find anyone who's casting this congressman as a villain in this story; he's being treated as a mildly ironic bystander to the whole mess.

Whose Signature Is on the Banking Crisis?

Picture, if you will, a 16-term congressman who plays a major role in overhauling the nation's regulation of banks. He then retires and joins the board of directors of a New York-based national bank traded on NASDAQ, a bank with assets of about $50 billion. As a former congressman and member of the bank's board, he lobbies Congress to loosen the rules for banks like his, making the not-insane argument that the rules for a bank with about $50 billion in assets shouldn't be the same as the rules ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 17 2023 WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 17 2023 If Barney Frank Were a Republican, He'd Be the Media's Banking-Crisis Villain On the menu today: There's something absolutely fascinating going on in the coverage of the current banking crisis. One of the two (or three? Four?) banks at the center of the story has a really prominent former congressman on its board of directors — a co-architect of how the federal government regulates banks. He's known for his acerbic comments, and he's doing a bunch of interviews right now in a hasty effort at reputation management. But you really have to look around to find anyone who's casting this congressman as a villain in this story; he's being treated as a mildly ironic bystander to the whole mess. Whose Signature Is on the Banking Crisis? Picture, if you will, a 16-term congressman who plays a major role in overhauling the nation's regulation of banks. He then retires and joins the board of directors of a New York-based national bank traded on NASDAQ, a bank with assets of about $50 billion. As a former congressman and member of the bank's board, he lobbies Congress to loosen the rules for banks like his, making the not-insane argument that the rules for a bank with about $50 billion in assets shouldn't be the same as the rules ...   READ MORE

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