Archive for October 2009

Depression In Commercial Real Estate Results In Bargains For Some

Depression In Commercial Real Estate Results In Bargains For Some

Depression Pricing As Empty Hotels Slash Rates
The recent era of easy lending was not confined to residential real estate.  Commercial real estate lending is the next big worry for a banking industry already beset by an avalanche [...]

The Correlation Between Incomes And Default Rates

The Marginalization Of Risk
The massive number of loan defaults that has put the entire banking industry on the brink on insolvency did not happen by accident.   Banks recklessly extended credit, even to low income borrowers who obviously [...]

Japan’ Solution To Debt Crisis - Expand Zombie Banking

Japan’s Zombie Banking Taken To New Levels Of Lunacy

Japan’s real estate and stock market bubbles burst in the early 1990’s.   Since then, twenty years of non stop Government stimulus programs have failed and left Japan with [...]