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"individuals and businesses curtailed their expenditure, which reduced GDP and in the process impaired the value of all assets in the system, including the ones SITTING ON the banks' books, thereby causing the banks to cut back lending still further, and so on and so forth."

from "The Trouble With Markets" of the economist Roger Bootle, an analysis of the financial crisis of 2008