Answer:
The insufficient expected low cash flows from investment caused by low demand for goods and services by the household.
Step-by-step explanation:
A recession refers to contraction of the business cycle when economic activity fall generally.
In order to get out of recession, governments usually employ macroeconomic policies like increasing government expenditure, reducing taxation, and increasing money supply. When the money supply is increased, it leads to fall in the interest rate.
Interest rate is a cost of investment; and it is expected that investment will rise when the interest rate falls. However, this was not so during the US credit crisis despite that U.S. interest rates were extremely low majorly due to low demand.
During the credit crisis, there was a general low demand for goods and services by the household. This made businesses to be discouraged from investing in new projects, because it was expected that low demand will lead low cash flows from the investment.
The insufficient expected low cash flows was therefore the major factor that discouraged businesses to borrow cheap funds that were allowed by the extremely low interest rate.
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