Credit Crunch
SOUNDINGS CREDIT CRUNCH SEMINAR
We have just put online several of the papers from our May 2009 Soundings seminar (co-organised with the OU) on the credit crunch. Contributors are:
John Clarke, John Harris, Neal Lawson, Gavin Poynter, John Urry, Michael Rustin, Sylvia Walby
To read contributions go to http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/ReadingRoom/public/creditcrunch.html
For information on Soundings 42, The killing fields of inequality, go to http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/current.html
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Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
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Credit Unions might be a good alternative source of funding as about 25% now offer to make business loans, says Bill Hampel, chief economist at the Credit Union National Association, a trade group. Additionally, he says, “some banks may not be willing to give a loan below a certain size whereas credit unions are more likely to make smaller loans.”