Tuesday, January 20, 2009

"Banks Are Lending"? Nope

Kasriel of Northern Trust posts a chart (can't bring it here) which shows bank lending has dropped like a rock--a genuine cliff-dive--in the last couple of months.

He shows bank lending contracting by 7.5% on a percentage-change basis during the last 13 weeks.

Ugh.

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