You bank regulators... get your priorities right, urgently, or we depict you on some shame poles.

Very few of us like having banks "too big to fail" or bankers receiving exaggerated bonuses. 

But, if banks are “too big to fail” and bonuses to bankers seem immorally large, but our banks still do a good job allocating economic resources efficiently, that is hard, but still quite livable. 

But if banks do not allocate economic resources efficiently, then even if all our banks are small, and easy to liquidate, and all our bankers do not receive more compensation than anyone else, that is still, something completely unacceptable. 

So please, European Parliament, European Commission, Basel Committee, Financial Stability Board, Michel Barnier, Stefan Ingves, Mario Draghi, Mark Carney, Lord Turner, Ben Bernanke… get your priorities right! 

The way YOU allow banks to hold lower capital against exposures considered as risky, than for exposures considered as safe, and which allows banks to earn higher expected risk-adjusted returns on what is perceived as safe than on what is perceived as risky, is bloody murdering the economies of the Western World, those economies which became prosperous thanks to a lot of risk-taking. 

When I think of all those opportunities missed, forever, to generate good jobs for our youth, only because of your regulations, I tell you I would have no qualms whatsoever depicting you on some shame poles, and placing these totems all around the most public places in Europe and America.