Regulators make banks finance “safe” basements where young can live with their parents, not the risky jobs they need.

Ever since regulators introduced credit risk weighted capital requirements for banks, these are not financing sufficiently the "riskier" future, only refinancing excessively the "safer" past and present.

For instance, the risk weight of 35% when financing “safe” houses, and of 100% when financing “risky” SMEs, results only in the building of basements where the young can live with their parents, and not in the creation of the new generation of jobs the young need.

Here's an aide memoire on the monstrous mistakes of such capital requirements.

P.S. Washington Post. December 2018: “Affordable homes or houses as investment/retirement assets?”