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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. The government will buy those assets, freeing up the major banks to loan again to businesses.

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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker. Business banks: Banks that focus on mid-sized businesses and commercial real estate. Banks have huge balance sheets well in excess of their equity value due to all deposits being liabilities – the balance sheet is the business.

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