Monday, June 10, 2013

The US banks are awash with liquidity but aren't making loans


. . . or is it that borrowers won't borrow?

The remarkable and unprecedented since 1987 slump continues. (The only thing approaching normal is commercial and industrial lending.) At the same time, banks are maintaining $1.9 trillion in excess reserves at the FED.

Two graphs below:







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