On Christmas Day 1989, the BoJ burst the asset bubble by raising interest
rates. This led to a 60 percent drop in the Japanese stock market and
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drop in property prices over the next four years. Banks that had loaned
money on the basis of inflated assets saw their collateral wiped out and
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left with a huge volume of nonperforming (dud) loans. By some estimates,
the size of the bad loan problem in Japan was six to ten times as
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the U.S. S&L crisis (see chart).
Unfortunately, the Bank of Japan and
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the problem. The central bank was too slow to ease monetary policy after
bursting the bubble. The government badly mishandled the banking crisis by
underestimating the magnitude of the problem and
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to solve it. It was not until 1998—nine years after
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put in place a financial restructuring program that even remotely resembled
the one that finally cleaned up the S&L mess in the United States. In the meantime,
Japan suffered through a “lost decade” that included a deep recession in
1997 and
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banking problem much more serious than the S&L crisis, but
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government’s poor response made things even worse.
The subprime crisis,which erupted in the United States during the summer
of 2007 and
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mania followed by panic. It had many of the attributes of the “hardy perennial”
identified by Charles Kindleberger and
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• First, thanks to the Great Moderation and
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in emerging markets, interest rates worldwide were at historically very
low levels (for a more detailed discussion, see the essay on page 267, “The
‘Great Moderation’—while the Business Cycle Is Not Dead, It Has Been
Tamed”).
If banks were permitted to accommodate the community in which they do business it would make a home outlet far their deposits, and
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suntrust bank miami as well reduce the power of the Money Trust. An act to accomplish that should postpone the taking effect until there could be a natural adjustment.
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Mr. LINDBERGH. To speculators.
Mr. FOSTER. That most banks are speculative centers. As was said by Mr. Lenroot, these commercial houses handle paper—that is, their brokers—and send out
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Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes, Sir.
Mr. FOSTER. You do not treat them as
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Mr. LINDBERGH. Sometimes they are ; not as
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Mr. DENVER. Is that for the purpose of stock speculation ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Oh, no ; it is not.
Mr. FOSTER. They are not speculators ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. No ; they are not speculators in the sense of bonding stocks.
Mr. LENROOT. Do you think, Mr. Lindbergh, there is any substantial percentage of loans made by banks on speculators’ paper ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes ; there is.
Mr. LENROOT. I mean made direct by the banks ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Not a large per cent of their deposits are made direct to speculators, except in the large cities.
Mr. LENROOT. But a large percentage of what are known as
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Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes ; there is a considerable per cent of that.
Mr. LENROOT. It would not be considered very safe banking, would it, in any community where a bank did that ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Perhaps I should give an explanation there. I consider a person who is buying a large quantity of timber out
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Mr. LENROOT. Through its raising value ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes. He is a speculator.
Mr. WILSON. Then you would consider a man trying to corner the wheat market a speculator ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. I certainly would.
Mr. LENROOT. Most anybody would.
Mr. WILSON. Is it not true there in Chicago that the board of trade men borrow great sums of money from
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Mr. LENROOT. I think they put up collateral for everything they get.
Mr. LINDBERGH. Most of those people put up collateral.
Mr. WILSON. Not all of them. I think the character of the man has a great deal to do with that. I think many of the men there can borrow great sums of money.
Mr. LINDBERGH. The creation of the National Monetary Commission was a very clever move.
It was in 1907 that nature had responded so beautifully to the farmer’s touch and
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