2008 Credit Crisis

Getting banks lending again

Date: 
July 24, 2012
Associated Persons: 
Steve Stanek
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Alan Blinder's proposal to prompt banks into more lending could work, and that's the problem. A flood of easy lending caused a credit boom that ended in a housing bust.

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