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Commercial Real Estate or Business Lending: Which Is Better?

Jeff For Banks

The charts below show the pre-tax profits as a percent of the total product portfolio during different rate scenarios compared to the Fed Funds Rate. So the answer, from a straight pre-tax profit perspective, is commercial real estate in more recent times and a rising rate environment. The pre-tax ROA might not look great.

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I made millions out of the last debt crisis. Now the wealthy stand to win again | Gary Stevenson

TheGuardian

We urgently need a fairer tax system so that rich people like me help solve the fallout from coronavirus, not just profit from it • Gary Stevenson is an economist and former interest rate trader Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage I made my first million the year Greece went under. I was 24 years old at the time.

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Ascension Leak Exposes 24M+ Loan, Mortgage Details

PYMNTS

A server running an Elasticsearch database contained sensitive data from as far back as 2008 that included loan and mortgage agreements, repayment schedules and other financial and tax documents. Unfortunately, the server wasn’t password protected, giving anyone access to the documents.

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America’s Expanding Debt Footprint (And What It Really Means)

PYMNTS

And not just one branch of underwriting — for a short while there, it seemed like all of it had hit Game Over status — with consumers; SMB and even enterprise-level lending slowed to a near stop. By quite a lot, American household debt is currently on pace to be $1 trillion above the peak debt level of 2008 by the end of this month.

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Collections Predictions 2021: After the Debt Tsunami, the Flood

FICO

Increased provisions, reduced capital, less ability to lend. All this will raise the question: Whatever capital I have got, how much can I lend to borrowers who have a low confidence on their own financial prospects, and are unsure if they should borrow or not? They can optimize the use of their capital and who they lend to.

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Covid-19 briefing: post-lockdown macro

BankUnderground

This view is in line with Stiglitz (2015) , who argued that reliance on flow-based models, without a role for credit, actually contributed to the 2008 crisis, and to the initially inadequate response in its aftermath. Bordignon and Tabellini (2020) argue that the ERF should be endowed with genuinely own EU sources of tax revenue.

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Bank Customers Lose Real Money

Jeff For Banks

Then, boom, the 2008 financial crisis. Heck, maybe there'll be a reassessment and your real estate taxes will go down. Taxes go down? Retiree: That's Not So Funny To the retiree that prefers the safe haven of FDIC insured deposits held at the local bank that lends it out locally, this is a serious issue. Your money grew.

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