Today's Goldman Sachs report on the U.S. banking industry has an amusing section where they have quite a number of graphs to prove that we're not going to end up like Japan. They write: "The collapse of an enormous asset bubble, a banking and credit crisis, zero interest rates, central bank balance sheet expansion, and massive fiscal stimulus have caused some people to question whether the scenario here could continue to play out like Japan, where loans declined for eight years after the peak and interest rates remained near zero." Loan shrinkage has indeed been trending just like Japan-but the U.S. cut interest rates and addressed a looming crisis much [...]