For many others, day-to-day finances are fine for now, but the financial outlook is uncertain: 401(k) accounts are dwindling, loans are hard to get and house prices continue to fall.
Wells Fargo's loans rose by 6percentt, as did Bank of America's, once you remove the dwindling Countrywide loan portfolio from the calculation.
With the economy contracting, tax receipts dwindling, and loans failing, the situation is neither sustainable nor easily fixed.
Profit fell at Citigroup and Bank of America in the second quarter as weak trading results overshadowed the benefit they received from dwindling losses on loans to consumers and businesses.
Dwindling margins and lower loan volumes will squeeze profits just as bad loans peak on the back of an expected 20% unemployment rate.
The new government, which will keep the Euro, faces an immediate cash shortage, with a dwindling primary surplus, upcoming loan repayments, and limits on the money it can raise using treasury bill auctions.
In our paper, we explain that the lower premiums did attract new customers, but the co-ops are burning through inadequate premium revenue and dwindling amounts of unspent loan funds to pay medical claims.
Whether Tsipras and fellow leaders of the far left Syriza Party now in power will attempt to trade their allegiance to the European Union sanctions for Russian aid or joint ventures remains to be seen in the dwindling days before the loan payment deadline.
Bankers say that the pipeline of troubled loans is dwindling.
At the same time, bankers say, because so many companies have gone out of business, the demand for bank loans keeps dwindling.
