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Federal Reserve official Michael Barr has unveiled new regulatory proposals targeting US banks. The changes would require the country’s biggest banks to boost their capital reserves by an aggregate of 9%. To discuss the implications of these proposals, Catalysts welcomes Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors Chris Whalen. Whalen argues that the focus of this regulatory effort should have been on market risks rather than capital. He points out that since the Supreme Court overturned the “Chevron deference” doctrine, which previously gave regulatory agencies the benefit of the doubt when interpreting ambiguous laws, federal regulators are now more “vulnerable to losing in court” if banks choose to challenge their decisions legally. […]