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Memo Published July 21, 2009 Updated July 21, 2009

Commercial Real Estate—Forestalling the Next Foreclosure Crisis

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Jim Kessler, Herb Miller

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Could commercial real estate be the next shoe to fall in the financial crisis?

A new Third Way paper explores a Main Street approach to the collapsing real estate market that puts the taxpayer on top.

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