That's how David Goldman describes the current situation, and he's right.

These two charts from the St. Louis Fed tell the story. The first one is year-over-year change in commercial and industrial loans. It's still getting worse. The second one shows bank ownership of government securities -- i.e. the risk-free assets that banks are buying with their money, instead of lending it into the private sector.

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