Small Bank Loan Availability

                 

Many smaller banks don’t have sound loans on their books. They are, therefore, under constant pressure to clean up their financials and/or add to basic capital.

                     

But politicians in their area, at times, put pressure on  bank examiners to allow these banks with questionable standing to make loans which ordinarily should not be made.

                     

Unfortunately, banks are not making sufficient loans to small business even if they have the ability to do so, The truth is, they make more money  by borrowing cheaply from the Federal Reserve and investing in government bonds.

                     

This unhealthy environment is perfect for the likes of meddling politicians in Washington, whose influence is being made in the wrong place, in the wrong manner.

                     

Solution: Supervise banks gingerly but independently of politics. Secondly, permit banks to make riskier small business loans and restrict their tendency to borrow cheaply and invest in government bonds.

                     

It is also time to raise the cost of Fed money to banks, so the latter do what they are in business to do.(See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinesNewshole at Twitter.)