# Professor Kim Schoenholtz shares his views on the current state of credit markets

1 Faculty News June 15, 2017 ![The Economist logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025662.jpg?itok=1_MW1PTy)>

Excerpt from [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21723405-dodd-frank-act-gave-regulators-discretion-do-more-and-under-donald-trump) -- "In some areas red tape surely has choked lending—notably residential mortgages, where recklessness led to catastrophe a decade ago. But the report pays scant attention to the possibility that slow growth may instead cause weak demand for credit. 'I don’t think the economy is credit-constrained,' says [Kim Schoenholtz](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/kim-schoenholtz) of New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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