One view is that investment fell largely because labor fell (and labor and capital are complements). For example, if fewer people are to be working, it's time to slow down the building of new office buildings and factories in which they would work. An alternative view is that businesses were actually hungry for loans to finance new investment, but that banks were in such a chaos that loans were not available. What do the numbers suggest?
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