Bank lending had increased at a 6 percent rate for each of the previous three years.
Bank lending has declined every month for six years and five months.
All three Presidential candidates say they want more bank lending.
In Japan, bank lending has fallen every month for nearly four years.
Bank lending was up 27 percent in the 12-month period that ended last September.
In effect, its own demand for bank lending will increase and with it the money supply.
Japanese banks account for half the foreign bank lending, up from a 34 percent share five years ago.
Another 25% of all bank lending went to financial intermediaries.
In 1980, according to the bank's Web site, 21 percent of bank lending went to power projects like dams.
The Bank may use them to help control the level of bank lending.
Many question whether the bank should be lending to China at all.
And many banks are lending them the money to do so.
And don't we need the banks to lend more not less right now?
American banks have lent about 2 percent of the total.
The point of all this is to get banks to lend.
This new money can only be created by banks lending more into the economy.
In the early 1980's, banks lent too much to the third world.
His bank has since lent $20 million to the inner city.
Banks aren't lending the funds they already have on hand.
Banks lent $33 billion in April, a 4.1 percent increase from the month before.
