The section of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 repealed in 1999 which
separated Commercial Banking from Investment Banking and from Insurance
must be reinstated, because the Volcker Rule is too hard for regulators
to operate/enforce. The bright line rule was much easier to enforce
because the lines were very clear. Need to do something special across
disciplines? Syndicate it.
Money's too fungible to rely on anything other than legally separate corporate entities, and having Bank Deposit Insurance (i.e. FDIC) on one side of the same house invites cross-subsidization of risk (i.e. abuse, moral hazard).
Too big to Fail Financial Institutions must not be allowed to exist - the "living will" requirement is silly nonsense, and will be found to have not been properly updated for a given such institution that gets in trouble in the future. If it's too big to be allowed to fail, it's too big to be allowed to exist at all, and the current ones must be cut down to size. This means setting hard limits in law, like the law that prohibits any single deposit-taking bank from having more than 10% of the deposits of the USA (Bank of America is just under the limit, and we might want to think about lowering that one to 5%).
Continuous Read: How can we avoid another 2007-2008 type Financial Crisis in the Future?
Money's too fungible to rely on anything other than legally separate corporate entities, and having Bank Deposit Insurance (i.e. FDIC) on one side of the same house invites cross-subsidization of risk (i.e. abuse, moral hazard).
Too big to Fail Financial Institutions must not be allowed to exist - the "living will" requirement is silly nonsense, and will be found to have not been properly updated for a given such institution that gets in trouble in the future. If it's too big to be allowed to fail, it's too big to be allowed to exist at all, and the current ones must be cut down to size. This means setting hard limits in law, like the law that prohibits any single deposit-taking bank from having more than 10% of the deposits of the USA (Bank of America is just under the limit, and we might want to think about lowering that one to 5%).
Continuous Read: How can we avoid another 2007-2008 type Financial Crisis in the Future?
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