Real banking risks do not revolve around what is perceived “risky”, as experts think, but around the “absolutely safe”

What happened with the experts swearing by geocentrism, or the Ptolemaic system, that with the cosmos having Earth stationary at the center of the universe, when Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, convinced the world of the heliocentric model, that with the Sun at the center of the Solar System?

I ask it curious to know of what will happen with all those experts in the Basel Committee, the Financial Stability Board the IMF and places like the academia and the press; like for instance Mario Draghi, Stefan Ingves, Jaime Caruana, Mark Carney, Olivier Blanchard, José Viñals, Martin Wolf and so many other; when it is finally realized that the real serious risks in banking do not revolve around assets perceived as “risky”, as they all think, but around assets perceived as “absolutely safe”.

These regulators’ silly portfolio invariant credit risk based capital (meaning equity) requirements for banks, by impeding the fair access to bank credit of “the risky”, like small businesses and entrepreneurs, not only distorts and hurts the real economy; but they also guarantee major system crisis, since banks are then doomed to, sooner or later, to get caught with their pants down (meaning little equity), with huge exposures to something which was perceived as “infallible” but which has turned into something very risky… often precisely because of too much credit at too low interest rates.

Should it be "More risk more equity – less risk less equity" as these regulators argue?

No! I prefer no distortion, but, if anything, then just the opposite.

These current regulators they all confuse the world of ex-ante perceived risks with the world of ex-post realized dangers.

These regulators have never heard or understood Mark Twain’s “A banker is he who lend you the umbrella when the sun is out, and wants it back as soon as it looks like it is going to rain”