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>So the firm itself is destined to either return the predicted profit, or die, with no middle road.

Nah, the third option is bailouts, and they are not wrong for having high confidence in getting bailouts.

It's interesting, where I live in Ontario, the mall pre-recession was doing extremely well. They changed focus primarily to services, clothing, and food. Massive food court, 80% of the mall are clothing/fashion, and then there are services, like dr's office, optometrist, gym etc. They were killing it.

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