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July 1976

Bank Financing of the Recovery


While recovery periods display many common characteristics, each such period has its own unique features which distinguish it from other recoveries. A unique feature of the current recovery period is the lack of growth of bank loans. In previous recoveries, total loans of commercial banks have increased soon after recession troughs; in the current recovery period, total loans have remained essentially unchanged since the March 1975 trough in economic activity.