Barr Signals He's Not That Worried About Commercial Real Estate Sinking Banks

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Fed Governor Michael Barr gave a late afternoon speech at a National Association for Business Economics conference. Though it mostly focused on monetary policy, the vice chair for supervision touched on a few regulatory issues.

Most notably, Barr said he doesn’t see problems in the commercial real estate market spurring anything close to the bank turmoil…