The PayNet Small Business Lending Index (SBLI) displays the precipitous and continued drop in lending activity in the lower-middle and middle market. The SBLI measures the volume of small business loans issued over the past 30 days and is based on the most recent data from the largest commercial and industrial lenders in its database.
Read MoreIt’s over. We think we can finally call the end of the game. It has been one heckuva run, but we think that the end has come for the World’s Great Debt Bubble. It has fueled some truly unbelievable economic scenarios, but the day of reckoning appears to finally be upon us. This is the beginning of a new chapter that will be focused on lower leverage, debt restructuring, more conservatism and possibly even some austerity. Even if the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve Bank and the U.S. Treasury are limitless – a theory which they appear to be attempting to prove with each passing day – the rest of us are left to accept the fact that we are going to have to live with more prudence and less availability to debt.
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