This is my Simple Layman's hArd-line, Common-sense
[SLAC] three-tiered solution to our current malaise. Each tier
revisits perception; planning & implementation. Let's
leave the economics, which is nonscience, to the economists and the
politics to the cleverly-polished..
JPMorgan's Dimon has labeled BASEL III as unduly restrictive,
particularly for US banks which in his words is 'anti-american', whatever that
means. Amusingly, this is the same individual who called for an international
set of regulatory rules post the financial crisis. BASEL III purports exactly
that ie: an international set of regulatory rules applicable to ALL banks,
eastern banks included. For interest, a cynic might illustrate the need for
more transparent regulation citing, in illustration, Dimon's chameleon-like
propensity to camouflage self-interest with the well-being of society at
large.
However which way you slice it, the financial services industry
needs effective, rather than restrictive, regulation. Conversely, retaliatory bank-bashing is equally ridiculous. The markets face the prospect of unrelenting, uncapped civil claim against US
banks by delinquent US mortgage-holders wronged or otherwise in unlawful
lending practice. This sword of Damocles hanging over the banking industry
will, no doubt, have a profoundly negative impact on US banks in the future
already evidenced in the mooted retrenchment of thousands of employees. In an
already stressed jobs-market there are no winners here...
SLAC proposes:
- Intangibly difficult to quantify or legislate against selectively, US authorities must limit civil suits against the banking industry arising out of the housing-market collapse. If they don't the destabilizing effect on the US banking system and the commensurate industry contagion worldwide will limit any chance of economic recovery. As a concession to dispel capital adequacy fatigue, if you like, level the regulatory playing field across the global sphere and expel, immediately, any bank from international financial markets for material breach.
- Make regulatory authorities jointly responsible for financial loss arising out of a material breach of regulatory stipulations.
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