Vikash Yadav supports the Occupy Wall Street, but wants to see more protests directed at international institutions like the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Although he doesn't say this, I suspect that he is not aware that the BCBS is nothing more than a talk shop. Its members are the (domestic) central bankers and finance ministers from industrial economies. As such, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to protest against the administrative staff, which are the only ones actually located in Basel. It makes a lot more sense to protest against the domestic authorities that meet under the auspices of the BCBS to set international regulatory policy. Which is pretty much what the #OWS movement is doing.
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