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Read of the Day: Obama's Bank Solution

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Interesting Times1/22/2010 4:15:42 pm PST

Why not just do what we do?

Obama in Canada Finds World’s Best Financial System

“Solid funding and conservative consumer lending criteria are key features” of Canadian banks, said John Haynes, senior U.S. equity strategist at Rensburg Sheppards Plc in London, which oversees the equivalent of $17 billion. “This has meant that they have had their hands caught in the cookie jar to a much more limited extent than their American and European counterparts.”

More from same article, emphasis mine:

Just two Canadian regional banks have failed since 1923. The only government support has been a pledge to buy as much as C$125 billion in mortgages, allowing the banks to increase lending to companies and consumers.