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<text id=90TT1311>
<title>
May 21, 1990: Business Notes:Credit
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 69
Business Notes
CREDIT
Lighten Up, Lenders
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<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.
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</body>
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