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Monday, February 25, 2008

Bonds called commercial mortgage-backed securities had once allowed easy money to flow into the world of office buildings. But at the start of the year, they'd all but dried up. Lisa Napoli asks Fortune's Allan Sloan more.

Allan Sloan is a senior editor-at-large at Fortune (APM)

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