After all, we have no particular reason to believe this stunt will even work. Banks have more than enough liquidity already, to meet the requirements, and they don't seem to be very keen to lend it out. Sure, the new rules will allow them to lend out that cash, if they want to. But the market right now is rewarding the conservative banks, and punishing those who lend to Main Street. Changing the liquidity rules won't change that. It will just make banks that much riskier over the long term.The theme of the day, today, is nostalgia for the simple banking systems of yore, where the Bailey Building & Loan was run by simple, honorable men who had no problems complying with Basel I or its predecessors. If you have a large chunk of time today, you can start with the 9,500-word cover story in the Atlantic by , and then for dessert follow it up with 2,600-word explanation, for Bloomberg, that bank regulation these days is really complicated.