The Federal Reserve’s Covert Commercial Real Estate Bailout

“This issue of bailing out CRE was never discussed openly with the American people because it would have never carried any political muster. So what the Federal Reserve accomplished was to create a system where banks were able to exchange toxic loans in place of U.S. Treasuries without taking up an open dialogue with the public. In other words a clandestine bailout. The problem with bailing out the commercial real estate industry is that it shifts costs from businesses and more crucially big banks to working and middle class Americans.”