Very interesting - and important - that the Bank of England is encouraging banks to turn half a blind eye on likely #COVID19 losses on loans to businesses and mortgage borrowers - in hope they don’t suddenly stop lending for fear future losses will deplete their capital... 
After the 2008 banking crisis, not something I ever thought I would see, but probably appropriate. Given the sheer number of businesses and mortgage-borrowers in trouble, the damage to the economy would be made much worse if banks stopped or cut lending for prudential reasons...
What matters is that the Bank had better be right that the economy and businesses will bounce back when we are through this #COVID19 crisis. Or the losses for banks - and by extension for us - will be mind-bogglingly big. And of course so much hinges today on the generosity...
of what @RishiSunak offers to subsidise the incomes of the millions of employees and workers whose businesses are in the direst straits.
