Bush’s Speech Fails with Most Important Audience

Via John Cole, it appears our bankers were none too impressed with Bush’s speech last night.

Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.

The Hong Kong newspaper cited unidentified industry sources as saying the instruction from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) applied to interbank lending of all currencies to U.S. banks but not to banks from other countries.

I guess this is where we start talking about paying for milk with wheelbarrows full of cash, fresh off the very busy printing press.