Faced with soaring recession-related bad debts, we doubt that banks, if left to their own devices, will start lending enough to kick-start the economy. The Government will therefore have to force them to lend. State-decreed lending targets, perhaps via full nationalisation, may ultimately be the only solution. But these are some way off and unlikely to boost lending until 2010 at the earliest.
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