In those days Mr Marcus's challenge was not to alleviate the boredom of the rich, but to keep up with the demands of Texans newly flush with money.

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That might be politically appealing given concerns that Cyprus's banks are flush with Russian money deposited there to take advantage of the country's weak anti-money laundering rules.

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While the M0 money stock has indeed increased, inflation is up slightly, and banks are flush with capital to be loaned, the M3 stock of money is actually down (a much broader measure of money), the velocity of M3 is down, and banks have not been loaning out much money.

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Banks, for their part, are now often wary of lending money to companies, yet they are flush with deposits.

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