Tuesday, May 27, 2014
We read Mark Carney the governor of the Bank of England saying “there is growing evidence that relative equality is good for growth. At a minimum, few would disagree that a society that provides opportunity to all of its citizens is more likely to thrive than one which favours an elite, however defined”
Who is he to talk about this? As a chairman of the Financial Stability Board, Mark Carney has approved for years risk-weighted capital requirements for banks, which discriminate against bank lending to “the risky”, those already discriminated against, precisely because they are perceived as “risky”, and favors bank lending to the “absolutely safe”, those already favored, precisely because they are perceived as “absolutely safe”.