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by stephen_g 1192 days ago
Why would you expect that? It doesn’t seem to follow at all… If banking was less profitable, they’d more likely want to try and increase volume (issuing more loans) to try to make up for it and make more profit.

(Which is why bank regulation is incredibly important, because without strong regulation banks often do start to chase profit by lending to more and more risky customers, and when that unwinds you get what happened in 2008)