Showing posts with label Bank Liquidity Coverage Ratio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bank Liquidity Coverage Ratio. Show all posts

Monday, January 14, 2013

Why is Liquidity Coverage Ratio only about bank liquidity, not Real-Economy Liquidity?

commentary by Roger Erickson

Basel III: The Liquidity Coverage Ratio and liquidity risk monitoring tools

This is almost comical! The top can't see the bottom-up for all the middlemen?
The root causes of many canopy problems are always hidden underground?

This boils down to simple collusion between international merchant lobbies. Instead of a bevy of confusing suggestions, I have only one. "No." Just one syllable.  Instead of bank liquidity, how about some more lower class liquidity among the 99%?

Warren Mosler had a suggestion better than what the BIS provides.

"Global banking rules make no sense at all to me.
Each CB need[s] only mind the banks [that] it insures.

But until that’s understood we have to suffer through this nonsense."

Oh I think it's understood.  Yet understanding doesn't matter until there's adequate alignment among all those who understand what, and why, and who care.

Is BIS slap an acknowledged economic term?  Have we all just been BIS slapped again?