A great way to ensure an article never gets read is to put bank capital requirements in the headline. People’s eyes just glaze over. Capital requirements feel complicated and remote. To be fair, bank capital requirements are complicated. But they’re not remote. They quietly play a big part in our lives.  Capital requirements are the one of the biggest reasons Ulster Bank left Ireland this week. They’re the one of biggest reasons Irish mortgages cost three to four times as much as Finnish ones. They’re one of the biggest reasons the government may need to inject a couple of hundred…

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