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The latest bubble is about to burst, but this time it’s in the commercial market. Here’s how to see it coming. By Katie Benner Fortune.com NEW YORK (Fortune) — When the FDIC closed Chicago’s Corus Bank last month, it may have signaled the beginning of the next shock to the banking system: commercial real estate defaults. Corus, whose balance sheet was larded with bad construction loans, is just one of many banks that have a slew of this debt on their books. Refinancing the $2 trillio

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DailyFinance.com It’s a big number that only tells part of the story. The number of banks that have failed so far this year topped 100 on Friday — hitting 106 by the end of the day — the most in nearly two decades. But the trouble in the banking system from bad loans and the recession goes even deeper. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of other banks remain open even though they are as weak as many that have been shuttered. Regulators are seizing banks slowly and selectively — partly to avoi

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Saturday, October 24, 2009cynicuseconomicusThe US – The Real Economy and the False EconomyDo you remember the stress tests for the banking system in the US? They were the subject of negotiations by the banks with regards to the outcomes, making them remarkably relaxed stress tests. There was an assumption in the stress tests for an unemployment rate of 8.9% (a curiously precise figure), and 10.3% in 2010. The unemployment rate had already reached 9.8% in September, with expectations of further r

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WASHINGTON – The cascade of bank failures this year surpassed 100 on Friday, the most in nearly two decades. And the trouble in the banking system from bad loans and the recession goes even deeper than the number suggests.Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of other banks remain open even though they are as weak as many that have been shuttered. Regulators are seizing banks slowly and selectively — partly to avoid inciting panic and partly because buyers for bad banks are hard to find.Going slow buys time

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Repeat after me: the credit crisis was the result of too much cheap and easy lending. Ergo, any return to healthier practices means more expensive and less readily available debt. The problem is that the powers that be don’t quite grasp the implications, or to the extent they do, are still trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want a sounder banking system (or so they say, but with the banksters in charge, this is likely all talk). But heavens no, we cannot restrict credit, bad thing

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