Comment by roughly

So the problem here is the banks wrote their loans stupidly and both the bank and the property owner's willing and able to burn money to keep those chickens from coming home to roost, which has an enormous social cost on small business owners, citizens, and other businesses in the area, but the article concludes we can't really do anything about it because it might make the banks sad and cause the renegotiation of a bunch of those shitty contracts.

Since when did "taking a loss" get written out of the definition of "investing"?