{"id":1904404,"date":"2023-03-24T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-jabs-biden-for-climate-change-fixation-while-banks-are-melting\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:29:22","slug":"musk-jabs-biden-for-climate-change-fixation-while-banks-are-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-jabs-biden-for-climate-change-fixation-while-banks-are-melting\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Jabs Biden For Climate Change Fixation While \u2018Banks Are Melting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-jabs-biden-for-climate-change-fixation-while-banks-are-melting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1904404&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0324\/10959ab7-c77d-4312-be05-8f186587f8fb\/audio.mp3?length=3815181&#038;duration=318\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk appeared to criticize President Joe Biden\u2019s fixation on fighting climate change, suggesting the president\u2019s focus was not where it should be given the crisis roiling the U.S. banking sector.<\/p>\n<p>Biden on Wednesday took to Twitter to tout his administration\u2019s accomplishments in the area of environmental protection and fighting climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my first year in office, we protected more lands and waters than any president since John F. Kennedy. We\u2019ve also made the largest investment to fight climate change \u2013 ever,\u201d Biden wrote in the message, which came after the White House announced new conservation measures, which included plans to \u201charness the power of the ocean to fight the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who in the past has sounded the alarm on global warming but recently indicated there are bigger problems facing humanity, criticized Biden\u2019s post, suggesting the president\u2019s focus isn\u2019t where it should be given the banking sector jitters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUmm \u2026 the banks are melting,\u201d Musk wrote in the comment, presumably referring to the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and several knock-on bank failures that triggered broader concerns about the stability of the U.S. banking sector and led to an increased outflow of uninsured deposits from smaller regional banks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5132205\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> President Joe Biden speaks with reporters before departing from the South Lawn of the White House on Marine One in Washington on March 17, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Musk has championed green energy, he has also been a voice of reason in the transition debate. This includes calling for increased fossil fuel output to ensure ample supply of affordable energy as innovators seek to find cleaner solutions, while saying he opposes moves to \u201cdemonize\u201d fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRealistically I think we need to use oil and gas in the short term, because otherwise civilization will crumble,\u201d Musk said at an event in Norway several months ago. \u201cIn order for civilization to function, we do need oil and gas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Musk\u2019s priorities on climate change, he said in mid-2022 that low birth rates are a bigger problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPopulation collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,\u201d Musk wrote in a Twitter post, though he added that he does \u201cthink global warming is a major risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some experts have told The Epoch Times that efforts to find clean energy alternatives should be subject to market forces and innovation rather than be imposed top down by the government, while arguing that fears about the impact of global warming were overblown and climate panic was driving an energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Others have alleged that behind the Biden administration\u2019s focus on cutting carbon emissions and getting to net-zero is a radical leftist policy agenda that wants to push the economy off its free market foundations and impose greater government control over Americans\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3445685\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) (R) speak during a press conference to announce Green New Deal legislation to promote clean energy programs outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 7, 2019. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Bank Turmoil<\/h2>\n<p>Market sentiment has remained frail after turmoil in the U.S. and European\u00a0banking sectors in the past two weeks has revived memories of the 2008 global financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has this week tried to calm frayed investor nerves, telling the American Bankers Association conference on Tuesday that deposit outflows from regional banks have stabilized and that the U.S. banking system \u201cremains sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a Thursday hearing before the House Appropriations subcommittee, Yellen again sought to send a reassuring message, saying that U.S. financial authorities are prepared to take further steps to make sure Americans\u2019 bank deposits stay safe amid turmoil in the banking system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I have said, we have used important tools to act quickly to prevent contagion,\u201d Yellen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are tools we could use again for an institution of any size if we judged its failure would pose a systemic risk,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5115618\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen takes her seat as she arrives for a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 10, 2023. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There have been concerns about the health of U.S. lenders and the economic impact of a potential lending crunch if depositors rush to withdraw their savings from smaller banks, which\u00a0have outsized roles in supporting key sectors such as commercial real estate.<\/p>\n<p>Following the failure of SVB and Signature Bank, the Federal Reserve set up a swap line under preferential borrowing conditions to give banks access to ample liquidity to meet depositor demand for withdrawals, a move meant to calm depositors and prevent bank runs.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on the basis of a special \u201csystemic risk exception\u201d for the two failed banks, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) expanded its $250,000 deposit guarantee cap for SVB and Signature to cover all uninsured deposits in a further bid to shore up financial stability.<\/p>\n<p>While there have been calls for the FDIC to expand this unlimited \u201cblanket guarantee\u201d of deposits to the entire banking sector as a temporary measure to instill further confidence, Yellen said there were no immediate plans to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Yellen said at the American Bankers Association conference that similar actions to the blanket guarantee for SVB and Signature deposits \u201ccould be warranted if smaller institutions suffer deposit runs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk also addressed the elevated risk of regional bank turmoil in a recent reaction to a post by Zerohedge that warned of \u201canother great depression\u201d if the Federal Reserve fails to contain the turmoil in regional banks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a serious risk,\u201d Musk commented.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk appeared to criticize President Joe Biden\u2019s fixation on fighting climate change, suggesting the president\u2019s focus was not where it should be given the crisis roiling the U.S. banking sector. 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