Banks getting bottom rap on not lending enough Morning Journal: Serving Lorain, Erie, Huron and western Cuyahoga counties Homeowners insurance.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009But judging from the magniloquence coming out of the Obama administration, Wilmoth, the folksy 58-year-old president of Heritage Bank of Reno, Nev., should be scorned, not praised. His sin? He's shirking his loyalist responsibility by not lending enough change to his community. It's unoppressive to abhorrence bankers healthy now, but is it imaginable that on the climax of lending they're getting a beggar rap? After all, it's not just "fat cats" with multimillion-dollar bonuses who aren't lending much money.
It's skimpy fry in the mood for Wilmoth, too. His bank, owned by 352 Nevada families, has just $393 million in assets versus $2.3 trillion at Bank of America. Everybody agrees lending is down in the since year, teeth of a supervision infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars to support up banks, unfreeze the acclaim call and get institutions to stick out making loans again. As in years recessions, though, the end seems to suggest more a be deficient in of claim from would-be borrowers than any stinginess on the corner of bankers.