Saturday, Oct 10, 2009
Running on fumes
MarketWatch: Banks cutting back on loans to businesses
U.S. banks are reducing their lending at the fastest rate on record, tightening the credit squeeze and threatening to leave many otherwise viable businesses unable to borrow money to expand their businesses, meet their payroll or refinance their maturing debts.
Despite more than a trillion dollars from the Fed and from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, "the banking system has still not fully recovered," New York Fed President Bill Dudley said in a speech this week.
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1. alan said...
Not to worry, lots of cash is coming in from China - they're buying the Humvee.
I guess its fair to assume they are buying in (recently deflated) dollars?
2. fallingbuzzard said...
Its also fairly safe to assume that the manufacturing is going to be transferred to China
3. crunchy said...
2. fallingbuzzard
That was planned years ago. Carbon tax free zone. Wait and see. : )
4. crunchy said...
Brown's bounce back in the economy seems to be at odds with the US banks.
That makes as much sense as Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize. Go figure!
5. fallingbuzzard said...
Imagine the headline "Brown pessimist on economy. Hard times ahead."
Didn't he tell us that we need to tighten our belts back in 2008?