Governments on Both Sides of the Atlantic Push to Get Banks to Lend.

Anxious about the economic impact of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, governments on both sides of the Atlantic are searching for ways to ward off a severe recession, or at least to shorten it. But there is a fundamental problem that is not easily solved by the usual economic policy tools: how to persuade rattled banks to start lending again -- an essential first step to restoring economic health. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]