{"id":12170,"date":"2015-08-16T21:20:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12170"},"modified":"2017-10-05T18:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T18:53:36","slug":"anat-admati-regulatory-reform-effort-is-an-unfocused-complex-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/16\/anat-admati-regulatory-reform-effort-is-an-unfocused-complex-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Anat Admati: Regulatory reform effort is an unfocused, complex mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telling it like it is. Anat Admati is Finance and Economics Professor at Stanford GSB and coauthor of <em>The Bankers&#8217; New Clothes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Anat Admati\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/378800000443934133\/475fe532a7e3f41eca2f191e1c7b141d_400x400.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Anat Admati\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The financial system is not serving society well right now, certainly not as well as it can. It is a drag on the economy. Finance is fraught with governance problems. Free markets don&#8217;t solve these problems. Effective laws and regulation are essential.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;the regulatory reform effort is an unfocused, complex mess, both in design and in implementation. Some regulations end up as wasteful charades. They provide full employment and revolving opportunities for numerous lawyers, consultants, and regulators without producing enough benefits for society to justify the costs. Some of the complaints from the industry about these regulations have merit. In this category I put living wills, stress tests, risk weights, TLACs\/cocos\/bailinable debt (whatever the term for today), and liquidity coverage ratio. I am also concerned that, as implemented, central clearing of derivatives does not reduce, and may even increase, the concentration of dangerous risk. In all these contexts <strong>we see the pretense of action, the illusion of &#8220;science,&#8221; a false sense of safety, over-optimistic assessments of progress, and counterproductive distortions<\/strong> [emphasis added].<\/p>\n<p>Lost in this mess are simpler, more straightforward regulations that would counter the incentives for recklessness and bring enormous benefits to society by making the system safer and healthier, as well as reducing unnecessary, unproductive risk that is a key source of system fragility, and the many distortions&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Banks are not acting in society&#8217;s interests but their own. Not even primarily in the interests of shareholders but those of senior management. And they are doing their best to frustrate, obfuscate and capture regulators.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Finance is about money and power. Money and power can corrupt. So unlike in the airline business, in finance it is possible for the industry, regulators and politicians, to harm and endanger, to spin narratives and cover up the harm, and to be willfully blind, without any accountability. DoJ and the SEC must do their job, but they can&#8217;t deal with nonsense and capture.<\/p>\n<p>So the biggest challenge in regulation is political. The details hardly matter if there is no political will. Unfortunately, most politicians put other objectives ahead of having a stable and healthy financial system. Ordinary people, meanwhile, may not be aware of what is going on or get confused by the spin. Not enough people understand why regulation is essential and what type of regulation makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>What can be done? Here are some concrete ideas. First, increasing the pay of regulators may reduce revolving door incentives. Second, effective regulators might be industry veterans who are not inclined to go back. Third, we must try to reduce the role of money in politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To fix this, we need to break the feedback loop between Wall Street and government \u2014 the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/02\/11\/us-sec-report-revolvingdoor-idUSBRE91A03G20130211\">revolving door between regulators and the financial sector<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/2014\/05\/28\/has-democracy-failed-us-or-have-we-failed-it\/\">between lobbyists and elected representatives<\/a>. Otherwise the system will remain hijacked to enrich a few at the expense of the many.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/4dPzPgpEgf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Making Financial Regulations Work for Society: Comments by Anat Admati | Finance and Society INET Conference<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telling it like it is. Anat Admati is Finance and Economics Professor at Stanford GSB and coauthor of The Bankers&#8217; New Clothes. 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