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

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.

  • Zess@lemmy.world
    18·
    3 days ago

    Same reason why banks kept giving loans to Trump. He had so much debt that their best option for a long time was to just give him more money in the hopes he could use it to earn enough to repay all the loans. Sunk-cost fallacy at the major financial level.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      9·
      3 days ago

      “if you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem, if you owe the bank $932,514,634 that’s their problem.”