And when regulators manipulate interest rates, is that ok?

Sir, when regulators set the capital requirements for banks based on perceived risks, even though these perceived risks are already priced in by the bankers in the interest rates, they are though perhaps unwittingly, effectively manipulating the interest rates. The direct consequence of it is that those officially perceived as not-risky, have to pay much less in interests than what would have been the case without this distortion, and those officially perceived as risky need to pay much more… and all for absolutely no good reason at all. 

And so when reading “Barclays fined a record $450m” for manipulating interest rates, my first thought was, “well done, but where can the “risky” small businesses and entrepreneurs also sue the regulators for all the monstrously excessive interests they have had to pay over the years? 

Simple calculations indicate to me that a not-rated bank client, exclusively on account of this odious regulatory discrimination, has to pay about 270 bp (2.7%) more in interest rates when compared to an AAA rated bank client… or, like now, in times of extremely scarce bank capital, suffer the consequences of being excluded from access to bank credit.