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- Mar. 22, 1993: Clinton to Bankers:Lenders Be
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 25
- BUSINESS
- Clinton to Bankers: Lenders Be
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- <p>The President asks an industry with record profits to share
- the wealth
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- <p> It is a curious contradiction: The Federal Deposit Insurance
- Corporation reported last Tuesday that bank earnings hit a
- record $32.2 billion in 1992, even as bank lending declined.
- Armed with such statistics, President Clinton asked the industry
- to loosen credit strings, particularly for small businesses. To
- encourage the major lending companies to lend more, Clinton
- unveiled a package of proposals designed to prompt banks to
- extend loans more on the basis of track record and reputation
- than on collateral.
- </p>
- <p> In a move that has the advantage of stimulating private
- investment without requiring public funding, Clinton also
- proposed a process that would ease both the challenge of
- questioning the judgment of federal bank examiners and the
- appraisal requirements on real estate offered as collateral for
- small-business loans. Bankers hailed the innovations. But some
- consumer groups remain wary of an industry that last turned
- regulatory relief into the S&L disaster.
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- </body>
- </article>
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