Yes, the principle of regulating bank capital seems sensible.

Bank regulation, like lending, was once decentralized and judgment based.

This episode serves as a reminder that central banks are political institutions, with a political agenda, and that independent central banks tend to be captured (at least cognitively ) by the banks that they are supposed to regulate.

Indeed, the Fed regulates only banks, so liquidity and leverage will migrate to the shadow banking system if banks are regulated more tightly.

Appropriate regulation including regulation of rating agencies would most likely make traditional banks popular again.

Banks

The banks.

Banking!

Bank regulators had long insisted that the safest possible financial instrument was a bond issued by a rich industrial country.

How to Bail out Good Banks and Let Bad Banks Fail

The government has established a new agency, Central Hujin Investment Company, to manage and re capitalize big state owned banks before they are sold.

When banks stopped providing short term liquidity to other banks and industrial companies, central banks filled the gap.

Central Bank Confidential

The Big Banks Are Back

The Great Bank Escape

Central Banks on the Offensive?

The Big Bank Fix

Measuring the Costs of Too Big To Fail

like in banking.

Bankers will be all right.

The banks are closed at night.

Bank Regulation s Capital Mistake

The inter bank market dries up, as banks lose trust in one another.

Banks in the eurozone came under pressure, and interbank tensions increased.

Layla was robbing banks.

Layla has been robbing banks.

The Wrong War for Central Banking

The Banks that Ate the Economy

The Temptation of the Central Bankers

Big Banks Shadow Dance

Banks, States, and Financial Crises

German Banks on Top

Is the Bank Crisis Over?

Of Banks and Bailouts

British Banks Comedy of Terrors

One was shut.

Big Banks Tall Tales

Why Target Big Banks?

Banks and speculators loved it.

All the bankers said to their clients,

Try to avoid banks.

That's when the banks open?

In the end, both have to be bailed out by central banks.

The implicit subsidy to banks means that German banks have an advantage over those of other countries.

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