"What is clearly evident is that the Federal Reserve has tried to revive the economy and stabilize the markets by cutting interest rates drastically and making credit readily available to financial institutions as well as swapping its balance sheet for those of commercial banks, taking on illiquid mortgage backed securities and exchanging its US Treasuries. Banks are tapping the Fed’s discount window but their borrowings are being used to replace their losses, not to make new loans. The continued losses on all loan categories and fear of more to come is leading the banks to tighten their belts, raising lending standards on all types of loans and reducing overall bank credit, particularly to the consumer...
(lowering interest rates, making credit available) What is going on is that the medium through which the Federal Reserve is able to channel funds into the economy is not operating. The Federal Reserve is pushing on the acceleratorbut the power is not getting to the wheels (economy, consumer) as the transmission (commercial banks) is broken."
http://financialsense.com/Market/daily/wednesday.htm
Diese Aussage stuetzt ein deflationaeres Szenario. Der Kreditfluss trocknet aus. Die div. Die bereitgestellten Mittel von FED und Regierung "verdampfen" bereits vollstaendig in den Banken, ohne dass die Wirtschaft damit versorgt wird.
"Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said Tuesday her agency might have to borrow money from the Treasury Department to see it through an expected wave of bank failures."
http://financialsense.com/Market/daily/wednesday.htm
"...Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost...."
Bernanke, Ben S. November 21, 2002. (http://financialsense.com/Market/daily/wednesday.htm)
Bei einem Bank-Run ist dieses "electronic equivalent" zur "printing press" einfach voellig wirkungslos, weil die Leute Gedrucktes verlangen werden. Man kann zwar beliebig viel virtuelles Geld in Zehntel-Sekunden erzeugen, es wird aber nichts nuetzen.