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A few different factors are working together to cause the downward trend in bank failures. One of the main factors is that after the banking crisis, including all of the events that led up to the banking crisis, banks are stricter on their lending policies. This in turn means that banks are not extending high risk loans as easily as they were.

One of the main reasons why banks go under is from loan ...

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