I refer to Martin Wolf’s comments on Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin and Simon Bunel’s “The Power of Creative Destruction”, “
The innovation game” FT June 11, 2021
John Kenneth Galbraith in “Money: Whence it came where it went” of 1975 wrote: “For the new parts of the country [USA’s West]…there was the right to create banks at will and therewith the notes and deposits that resulted from their loans…[if] the bank failed…someone was left holding the worthless notes… but some borrowers from this bank were now in business…[jobs created]” That’s creative destruction in action.
The current risk weighted bank capital requirements allow banks to earn much higher risk adjusted returns on equity when financing what’s perceived (or decreed) as safe e.g., loans to the government and residential mortgages, than when lending to the “risky” small businesses and entrepreneurs. That’s creative destruction inaction.
Would the development Galbraith describes have been possible with these regulations? No! Such risk-averse regulations do not help promote innovations.
Sir, in august 2006, in reference to an FT editorial mentioning the possibilities and impact of a “global housing slowdown”, you published a letter I wrote in which I referred to “
The long-term benefits of a hard landing.” When the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, there was too much interest in trying to avoid collecting any of these benefits, and the crisis-can was kicked forward… and then much upward with QEs.
The result? Way too little creative destruction and way too many surviving zombies… and here we are, on a much higher mountain of public and private debt. That will cause pure destruction.
“Risk weighted bank capital requirements”. Sir, if that’s not sophisticated technocratic demagoguery, what is?
Source:
http://teawithft.blogspot.com/2021/06/central-banks-and-regulators-cancelled.html
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