With over $1.29 trillion in credit card balances, $1.6 trillion in auto loans, and $1.5 trillion in commercial real-estate debt now at risk, the U.S. is marching into a full-scale crisis.

America’s banking system is entering a dangerous new phase — and the warning signs can no longer be ignored. In today’s video, “The American Banking Crisis Just Got Worse (Defaults Are Rising),” we break down the shocking financial data that major media outlets continue to downplay. Credit card delinquencies, auto-loan defaults, commercial real-estate collapses, and …

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Property fraud allegations surge as commercial real-estate values fall, exposing schemes and shaking the $4.7 trillion industry.

via WSJ: U.S. prosecutors are cracking down on commercial mortgage fraud, a growing push that is sending shudders through the $4.7 trillion industry by raising questions about the numbers underpinning major property loans. Regulators and federal prosecutors say that property loans based on doctored building financials and valuations have been rising. This type of fraud …

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The struggles in China’s real-estate industry and weak Chinese domestic demand pose a risk to the Japanese and global economies, Japan’s new economy minister says.

Yoshitaka Shindo, who assumed the cabinet post earlier this month, said that because China accounts for nearly a fifth of Japan’s exports, the Chinese economic troubles could cause Japan’s economy to move a notch downward. Potentially, “the impact is really big” given China’s central role in the global economy, Shindo said in a group interview …

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The migrant crisis, weak commercial real-estate market and toxic smog are making it a “frightening time” to be in the Big Apple.

BIDEN VOTERS POSTING THEIR L’S ONLINE: Ex-Gov. Paterson says it’s a ‘frightening time’ in NYC with migrant crisis, toxic smog, weak real-estate market. The migrant crisis, weak commercial real-estate market and toxic smog from Canadian wildfires make this “a frightening time” to be in the Big Apple, ex-Gov. David Paterson said Sunday. The former governor started …

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