Yen Goes Up In Flames

ALERT: US regulators seize troubled lender Republic First, sell it to Fulton Bank [Reuters]

ALERT: US passes bill to steal Russian assets

The package of bills passed included the REPO Act, which gives the president the authority to transfer frozen Russian state assets in the United States to Ukraine to compensate for the estimated $500 billion in damage Kremlin aggression has caused there.

Thank Republicans — even Donald Trump — for Putin’s very bad week [NY Post]