Talk about bad timing for credit unions.
On the very day when several thousand credit union activists were visiting Capitol Hill to push for an increase in the cap on member business lending, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke advised lawmakers against doing so.
Bernanke told the House Financial Services Committee last Wednesday that because credit unions are tax exempt, they need to accept certain restrictions on their activities, including a limit on how much member business lending they can do.
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