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I look at the situation as follows.  Banks are bridges between savers and investors.  Some of these bridges have collapsed.  But altogether too much attention is being placed on fixing the collapsed bridges.  Instead we should be thinking about how to route more savings across the bridges that have not collapsed.  Government lending may be one way of doing this but why lend to prop up the broken bridges?  Instead, why not lend directly to the investors who are in need of funds?