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- <title>
- May 21, 1990: Business Notes:Credit
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 69
- Business Notes
- CREDIT
- Lighten Up, Lenders
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Banking regulators often lecture on the need for caution.
- But last week lenders heard quite a different message: Loosen
- up. The advice came straight from the top U.S. regulators,
- including Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Board, who trooped over to a Washington meeting of a
- banking-industry group to warn lenders against being overly
- cautious and too restrictive in their loan policies.
- </p>
- <p> Greenspan aims to ease a trend that began last year, when
- federal regulators tightened their examination of loans in the
- wake of massive real estate defaults. In the economically
- distressed Northeast, this tough oversight has compelled some
- banks to reduce lending. Greenspan is concerned that examiners
- and bankers may be cutting off credit to worthy borrowers,
- particularly small businesses. A credit crunch could help touch
- off the recession that the Fed chairman has deftly avoided thus
- far.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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