Why Banks Won't Give You a Small Business Loan
There’s a scene in It’s a Wonderful Life where George Bailey is running a small bank, fighting to keep loans going to regular people. He’s the good guy. The bank is on the side of the little guy.
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Bailing Out a Sea of Debt: The CMBS Crisis Nobody Could Fix Fast Enough
This is post 6 in my series on The Commercial Real Estate Tsunami: A Survival Guide for Lenders, Owners, Buyers, and Brokers by Tony Wood, with a foreword by Matthew Anderson (ISBN: 978-0-470-63637-4, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2010). Chapter 5 is different from the rest of the book. It’s written by Dr. Sam Chandan, President and Chief Economist of Real Estate Econometrics and an adjunct professor at Wharton. This is the deep analytical chapter. And honestly, it’s the one that connects all the dots.