the u.s. government.
for example, there is a
bank in detroit called
co-merica.
they have something called
107% risk weighted to
normal assets.
what that means is they're
paying -- they're raising
capital on 107% of their
assets which is more, of
course, than they have,
than 100%.
credit suisse, which is
another bank which operates
in the united states, has
only 20% risk-weighted
assets to assets.
the difference is comerica
has to raise capital
because it lends to
businesses.
credit suisse doesn't lend
to businesses so it doesn't
need to raise all this
capital.
the net result overall is
if you look at loans to
small businesses from 2008
to the present, they're
down.
they're down and everything
else in banking is up.
large businesses, how are
they affected?
.essentially we're dealing
with a huge global
financial system.
there's $26 trillion in