If landlords can’t pay back loans on office buildings, the lenders will suffer. Some banks are trying to avoid that fate.

Hard times are likely ahead for a lot of people. Mind your expenses and plan to save where possible just in case. Apologies for having a doomer outlook; I’m very cynical about capitalism, especially in the USA.

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The churn will continue…you become a high paid employee at 50, the new kids get paid 10% below you because you’re “senior”. Then you all get 3% increases. You get retired. They keep getting 3% increases while you don’t. Suddenly they get paid more than you. You start having trouble paying for stuff because it’s so expensive. Then suddenly you gotta sell your house to have enough. A newly graduated kid gets paid the same as you, they buy your house. You can’t buy a house anymore, so you move to a cheaper area where you can afford something. Then you moved again and again. Take on stamp collecting as a cheap affordable hobby. Blah blah. You end up in a retirement home. Then your kids can’t afford that. Next thing you know you’re under a bridge and you love the freedom for like 3 days. Then you really wanna shower but you can’t. The welfare office is far from the YMCA, so you find a Walmart cart. A guy shows you where to collect soda cans and where to sell them. You two become friends but he OD’s… you inherit his cart. Then you help a new guy to find cans with you. So then you OD. And the guy in your house is retiring…the cycle continues.

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The American dream

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Oddly specific.

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… and in Australia (at least) you pay a massive Stamp Duty each time you buy a new place.

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Where can I find the used cans?

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Hey friend 🤗! Come on man, we’ll find you some cans! Place number 1 where people don’t look is under cars! Just sit here, watch the cars leaving the street parking and jump in to profit! But do it quick or a Karen might just give your cart to Bob…Sorry Karen! Yeah, not all Karen’s are bad! Specially not you!

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Mind your expenses and plan to save where possible just in case

So… like always? Nothing changed. We are already fucked.

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Please save, and put your money in the bank.

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You say that like somebody who’s never had to choose between rent and food before.

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I’m saying that the banks, who appear to be struggling, would like you to save your money by putting it in their system. So they may use it.

I’m not making any other judgement.

That said, no clue where the person I replied to got their apparent quote from, as it does not appear in the article itself.

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If you are reading this… it is clearly not “quietly” lol

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Let them eat cake.

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2008 all over again

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It’s really not though, at a very basic level.

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It actually kind of is The Bigger Short

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I can’t help but notice you linked a story from over three years ago. I’m not arguing with any of the problems identified by the researchers in that article, but weakness in the commercial real estate market has been happening for over four years. What happened in 2008 took everyone by surprise. What’s happening now is on everyone’s radar and mitigation efforts have been happening for years.

The article in the post even talks about the financial institutions identified as over exposed in your article getting rid of these assets to reduce their exposure.

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