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The reason: Hale's company is in good financial shape and part of a booming industry. Even though the U.S. hasn't seen a new nuclear power plant since 1996, there are now dozens on the drawing board, and the Obama Administration has announced loan guarantees to build new plants...
In Austin, Texas, Edward Lette, CEO of the Business Bank of Texas, is scouring the business community for companies to lend to. He's not having much luck. "I'm struggling to find qualified credits," says Lette. "Many times, people come in and apply for loans, but it's not...
Now, it is true that credit standards for business lending haven't tightened, as illustrated by the Federal Reserve's monthly loan-officer survey. And as Fed governor Elizabeth Duke pointed out in a speech on Feb. 26, those tougher standards could be having a disproportionate effect on small businesses...
But in many ways, the tightened credit make sense. We are living in the aftermath of the greatest credit bubble since the Roaring '20s, after all. Standards were too loose and had to change. At the same time, problems at many banks are contributing to the new, more conservative lending...
That's actually when we might start to see a problem, according to Raj Date, executive director of the Cambridge Winter Center for Financial Institutions Policy. In congressional testimony on March 2, he made the case that as the demand for loans from creditworthy borrowers picks back up, there might...