But lending it to the banks to lend to us is not the answer.
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All of that hot money meant that bankers were competing to lend to filmmakers.
Banks used to be as eager to lend to brand-new companies as to professional gamblers.
The bank-rescue package this week aims to loosen the terms on which banks lend to businesses.
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This will make bonds less secure and institutions more hesitant to lend to countries.
It will offer to lend to investors who want to buy property from it.
Meanwhile, they will want to keep cash to themselves rather than lend to others.
And in future they may be choosier about who they lend to, directly or indirectly.
The rate at which big banks lend to each other, meanwhile, hit a two-month high.
The spreads at which big banks lend to each other, meanwhile, hit a two-month high.
The Federal Reserve can still lend to banks, and to foreign central banks via swap lines.
Worse still, the markets are loth to lend to Japanese banks even in yen.
Lenders who cannot distinguish good borrowers from bad become less willing to lend to anyone.
"There aren't many good companies" to lend to, explains Jim Lam, ABN AMRO analyst in Shanghai.
That should go some way to stopping banks rushing to lend to such borrowers.
So banks have started to lend to much riskier borrowers to maintain their earnings.
In the past, banks preferred to lend to chaebol subsidiaries, even at thin margins.
Starve the productive and the relatively prudent to lend to the unproductive and imprudent.
The European Central Bank has rejected the idea that it should lend to the EFSF.
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Just as important has been the banks' willingness to lend to companies at suicidally thin margins.
More importantly, the credit markets, especially the ones where banks lend to each other, look more relaxed.
Despite low interest rates and more money to lend, there were no borrowers to lend it to.
But there is a problem with forbearance: it undermines the confidence of those who lend to banks.
And the Fed would also have the power to lend to a swaps entity under emergency circumstances.
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The Bank of England made extra funds available recently to encourage banks to lend to each other.
The political support such a government will lend to the terror war against Israel will be enormous.
They were backed by reckless banks ready to lend to just about anyone with the right calling-card.
After all, public lenders were not allowed to lend to property developers, the private banks' biggest headaches.
IMF, that any money they might in future lend to Russia would not be squandered or stolen.
In turn, the agency reasons that the program encourages banks lend to more money to more small businesses.
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