Low interest rates and weak loan growth mean that deposits are not very valuable.

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Good news for the economy might even translate into good news for savings accounts and other deposits, which have seen interest rates driven down to near zero by weak loan demand and Federal Reserve intervention.

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Banks did not expand their loans because their capital was constrained and loan demand was weak.

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