Trump: Time to Force Banks to Start Lending

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by WallStWhizKid, Dec 2, 2009.

  1. The US economy will never recover until banks start lending, and they are not doing that now despite claims to the contrary by the financial institutions, real estate developer Donald Trump told CNBC Tuesday.

    "Banks are not lending money, no matter how prime you are," Trump said. "The economy can't come back until the banks start lending."

    "It's really the money they have been given by the government and they're not lending it," he said.

    "I don't think any bank in this country is soliciting loans," Trump said. "Banks are bragging about the facts that they're making loans and they're not making loans."

    Unless the government "takes very hard action with the banks and forces them to loan money," the economy won't bounce back, he said.

    Banks should stop paying employees millions in bonuses on signing and closing of deals and maybe wait four or five years to see if the loan is good before paying a bonus, he suggested.

    As for where to buy, if "you have the cash this is a great time to be in the real-estate business," he said. "You can buy things that are phenomenally priced."

    They Built It, They Didn't Come

    As for the recent turmoil in Dubai, Trump said that a lot of people were looking at the construction going on during the boom and wondering what the purpose was.

    "What is the purpose of building so much?" he said. Dubai was like "New York City times 10 in its heyday."

    They were asking where are all these people coming from and the answer was they didn't come, he said.

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/34220655
     
  2. DUMBASS TRUMP... that's how we got into this credit mess in the first place... FORCING banks to make loans. (He's just hoping for the RE bubble to get rolling again, and soon... to save his own butt.)

    What we NEED is for excesses to be wrung from the system and for value to be restored. That's right... everybody who overleveraged and overspeculated needs to take it in the neck as determined by the market place. THEN we can grow...
     
  3. " I need money to create another money pit."
     
  4. pitz

    pitz

    Force lending to qualified scientific, engineering, and manufacturing professionals to start businesses.

    Let the parasitic sectors of the economy die like they should.
     
  5. If govt were actually bent on fixing the problems...

    Lend money to rebuild America's manufacturing power, with American employees, in American factories IN AMERICA, in real living-wage jobs that last as long as the worker remains an able and willing worker (ala 1950), under strict protectionist and nationalist policies putting the American worker above any other worker in the world in both priority and protection.

    The govt is not so bent. Neither are global-trade wackos.
     
  6. Poor Trump. Nobody will lend him money for more bankruptcy bound real estate projects.