A toxic wave of delinquent balances, distressed loans, and overvalued assets is beginning to break across the American economy. Shanghai Commercial Bank just took an 85 percent loss on a half-finished Manhattan condo project. The example demonstrates “extend and pretend” loan games at work: the troubled property had been refinanced multiple times since 2016, repeatedly pushing back the maturity date and inevitable financial reckoning, even as co…
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