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The pulmonary capacity of banks went from unlimited, through 62.5, 35.7 to 12.5 times of allowed leverage. Where do you think bubbles were blown?

Saturday, September 22, 2018 15:46

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Sir, I refer to John Authers review of “Ray Dalio’s” “A Template for Understanding Big Debt Crises” September 22, 2018.

I have not read the book, and something in it could apply to other bubbles but, if Dalio left out mentioning the distortions produced by the risk weighted capital requirements for banks, those that caused the 2008 crises, he would surely have failed any class of mine on the subject.

Sir, let me be as clear as I can be. 100%, not 99%, 100% of the bank assets that caused the 2008 crisis were assets that, because they were perceived as especially safe, dumb regulators therefore allowed banks to hold these against especially little capital.

The allowed leverages, after Basel II, that applied to European banks and American investment banks like Lehman Brothers were:

AAA rated sovereigns, including those the EU authorities authorized, like Greece, had a 0% risk weight, which translated into unlimited leverage.

AAA rated corporate assets, were assigned a risk weight of 20%, signifying a permissible 62.5 times leverage.

Residential mortgages were assigned a risk weight of 35%, translating into a 35.7 allowed leverage.

Of course, after the crisis broke out, any few “risky” assets banks held, like loans to entrepreneurs, those that banks could only leverage 12.5 times with went through, (and still do), a serious crisis of their own, when banks began to dump anything that could help them improve that absolutely meaningless Tier 1 capital ratio.

http://subprimeregulations.blogspot.com/2016/12/here-is-succinct-but-complete.html

@PerKurowski

Source: http://teawithft.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-pulmonary-capacity-of-banks-went.html

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