Banks claim they are ready, willing, and able to lend again. Why, then, are they not lending? Bank regulators claim they are encouraging banks to lend. Why, then, are micro-managing bank examiners criticizing, with 20/20 hindsight, the reasonable actions taken by banks when times were good?
The stock market tanks because computers, pre-programmed to buy and sell, spit out trades faster than the market can absorb them. It turns out we’re not sure whether many of those “trades” were real. We now appear to have computer-generated ghost trades intended only to cause and monitor market reaction.
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