Small banks own a significant amount of commercial real estate loans

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The fact that small banks possess a great deal of mortgages should not be a surprise to people. After all the small banks are the S & L's which were formed to provide a means for working class people to own a home. We need them but not a woke agenda for granting mortgages. The guiding principle should be credit worthiness of the mortgagee and not a social agenda where all or some having a mortgage that they can't afford. We saw that policy flounder during the mortgage crisis of a few years ago.
 
Charlie Munger believes there is trouble ahead for the U.S. commercial property market.

The 99-year-old investor told the Financial Times that U.S. banks are packed with "bad loans" that will be vulnerable as "bad times come" and property prices fall.
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Munger bringing attention to the issue will likely broaden the scope of awareness. Will it help or hurt the banking sector?
 
President Biden wants high credit rated individuals to subsidize the lending of less credit worthy individuals. Evidently he doesn't remember the housing marker crash of a few years ago. It was not good practice back then and probably will not be well received today.
 
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