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    <title>VIDEO: Are &#039;Zombie Buildings&#039; the Next Economic Calamity?</title>
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                    Bad Loans for Commercial Real Estate Threaten Regional and Community Banks         &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;While the overall U.S. financial system is showing signs of stability, a rapidly rising tide of troubled loans for commercial real estate threatens the survival of hundreds of the nation’s small and medium-sized banks.&lt;span class=&quot;read-more&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/stories/2009/11/video-are-zombie-buildings-next-economic-calamity&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Read more &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;You may have seen the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/business/28fdic.html?hp&quot;&gt;startling news&lt;/a&gt; yesterday: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported that its insurance fund, which essentially protects bank deposits from disappearing, dropped to its lowest level in nearly 16 years.&lt;span class=&quot;read-more&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/2009/08/28/drop-fdic-fund-problem-not-panic-worthy&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Read more &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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