The collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008 was partly due to bad real-estate deals.
The boom went bust in 2008, and banks incurred huge debts from bad real estate loans while the economy slowed, the jobless rate increased, and consumer spending stalled.
What we need is for the Fed and the Administration to unleash capital trapped in bad real estate to restart sustainable job creation and economic growth in this new, asset-light, Internet-based world.
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Bankia was created just 17 months ago by the merger of seven regional savings banks in an attempt to shore up their combined defences against the bad real estate loans, worthless building land and unsold apartment blocks they had accumulated.
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"Stuyvesant was not necessarily a reflection of the bad real estate market, but rather over-ambitious assumptions, lack of risk controls and poor contingency planning, " explains Burt White, managing director of research and chief investment officer of LPL Financial, further asserting that the bottom dropped out of the market months ago.
Pupils are then asked to differentiate between good, bad, real and unreal life events.
Mr McCarney told police that night Millie was "dopey with a real bad dose of flu".
It follows, then, that the appearance of pettiness, vindictiveness and defensiveness are just as bad as the real thing.
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"I got punched in the belly real bad by the FDA, " said Peter Becker, a retired Army colonel in Texas.
Four of the soldiers were in "a real bad state" with serious swelling on their faces and hands, police said.
But, the real bad news is that the deal will simply kick the can down the road one or two years.
Those are the real bad guys, not the whistle-blowers and messengers.
So I took off my shirt and wrapped it around my head to help me breathe and it worked, but my eyes were stinging real bad.
Once they can program T-Rot to ignore male bar patrons as well as regular bartenders do, it's gonna start looking real bad for the Sam Malones of the world.
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If the decision looked bad enough in real time, replays showed bat and glove firmly tucked behind the batsman's pad, and several inches away from the path of the ball.
"When it gets real bad, and they never -- with this one -- look you in the eye, 'Well, I can't vote for him, ' " McEntee told the diverse union audience.
This will be real bad news for Apple.
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But still, an all-debt floating-rate purchase does bring back memories of the bad old days of real estate.
Soon, unwittingly, they're trading fire with real life bad guys -- thus the true meaning of shooting without a script.
During the bad decades for the real economy, the 1970s and the 2000s, the value of the dollar in terms of gold fell (by 95% and 74%, respectively).
The humbling moves, which reshape the landscape of American finance, mark the latest chapter in a tumultuous year in which once-proud financial institutions have been brought to their knees as a result of hundreds of billions of dollars in losses because of bad mortgage finance and real estate investments.
That is why the 1-1 home draw wasn't a bad result for Mourinho and Real Madrid.
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Assume that your bad first impression was the real you, but the real you on sleep medication.
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Whatever else happens on his watch, good or bad, Witty will have a real legacy.
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Please stay home once the weather gets bad except in the case of real emergency.
To do otherwise is to invite categorically wrong conclusions and catastrophically bad results, both theoretical and real.
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Still burdened with bad loans left over from the real estate crash in the early 1990s, banks are slashing lending.
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