At that time, high investment activity of non-financial corporations was financed by borrowing; this reflected in high deficits in the years before the crisis and indirectly also in deleveraging, low investment levels and surpluses of non-financial corporations in the years following the onset of the crisis.
Takrat je bila za nefinančne družbe značilna visoka investicijska aktivnost financirana z zadolževanjem; na to kažejo visoki primanjkljaji v letih pred krizo, posredno pa se je to odrazilo tudi v razdolževanju, nizki investicijski ravni in presežkih nefinančnih družb v letih po začetku krize.