[Thane_Banquo]

Are the regulators going to wait until The Fed’s rosy forecasts for the economy come to fruition BEFORE they release the clamps on bank lending?

Every time a bank tries to do something in the private sector, it gets hammered for it by Dear Reader and the trial lawyers. On the other hand, in the guise of "quantitative easing," Bernanke is subsidizing banks for lending only to the US government.

[whitedog57]

Yup, The Fed wants banks to buy Treasuries to support the Administration’s OUTRAGEOUS spending and deficit. Banks actually get royally screwed by this.