"HK" wrote in message
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July 28, 2008
Worried Banks Sharply Reduce Business Loans
By PETER S. GOODMAN
NY Times
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Financial industry executives say tighter credit from major banks
represents a swing back to a realistic assessment of risk, after years of
handing out money with abandon. Those practices produced a mortgage crisis
whose losses could reach $1 trillion, by many estimates.

This is all you needed to quote. History repeats itself. Hang on folks.
We'll be taking it in the shorts again, to bail them out.