Barr Backs Down on Basel

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It was a chastened Michael Barr who walked to the podium at the Brookings Institution today and gave a speech he hadn’t intended to make, outlining a major retrenchment of his Basel endgame plan.

“Life gives you ample opportunity to learn – and relearn – the lesson of humility,” the Fed vice chair for supervision said, responding to a question on whether…