Yes Tim Harford, where are the independent bank regulator robots when we really need them?

Sir Tim Harford writes: “bored with blaming bankers, we blame robots too, and not entirely without reasons. Inequality has risen over the past 30 years” “Man versus machine again” March 14.

But Tim Harford ends asking: Where are the robots when we need them?

I agree. Robots would never ever have come up with something like the Basel Accord, which, in 1988, decreed that banks were required to hold 8 percent in equity when lending to the private sector but 0 percent when lending to central governments of OECD countries.

Reasonably designed robots, not preprogrammed by statist or communists, would know that the last thing they could do while regulating banks, was to distort the allocation of bank credit to the real economy.

@PerKurowski