XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:19:50 -0000 (UTC), bks@panix.com (Bradley K.   
   Sherman) wrote:   
      
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> | Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street   
   >   
   >>>>> | Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make   
   >>>>> | ends meet   
   >   
   >>> | The Break Is Over. Companies Are Jacking Up Prices Again.   
   >   
   > |   
   > | Lenders to commercial real estate owners are reaching the   
   > | breaking point, calling in tens of billions of dollars of   
   > | troubled loans.   
   > |   
   > | Refinancing property debt has become difficult since   
   > | interest rates started to soar in 2022. Many lenders   
   > | initially extended maturing loans they made when borrowing   
   > | costs were far lower, hoping that either interest rates   
   > | would fall or that cash flows would grow. It is a strategy   
   > | known as "extend and pretend."   
   > |   
   > | Now, many lenders have stopped pretending, and the default   
   > | rate is surging. The delinquency rate for office loans in   
   > | commercial mortgage-backed securities climbed to a record   
   > | 12.34% in January, the highest level since Trepp began   
   > | tracking in 2000.   
   > | ...   
   >   
   >   
   >    --bks   
      
      
   "started to soar in 2022".  Who was President during this time and why   
   wasn't the problem fixed?   
      
   Selective outrage at work.   
      
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