May 02, 2008

Don't forget to sack some regulators too!

Sir William Cohan writes "Regulators must seize the chance to reform Wall Street", May 2, and though I agree with most of what he says I can't help thinking that we must also seize our chance to reform the regulators before they take us to That-Place-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Our bank regulators have now for two decades forced upon us a system which sole objective has been to avoid financial turmoil, as if that is all that banking is about, and they have not even delivered on that!

Come on, that the bank regulators should get sacked when they do not perform must be the first pillar of any reform. This is turning out to be the mother of all the non-accountabilities.