When buyers began laying out tens of billions of dollars for companies that make pressed tomatoes and desktop computers, observers were sure quick to herald the resumption of crazyWallStreet dealflow.
Some of the smaller banks also -- although they weren't involved in some of the crazy stuff that was going on on WallStreet -- frankly were just way overextended when it came to the commercial real estate market, built a lot of malls out there, a lot of strip malls out there.