Professor Alan Ahearne:

But this goes back to the earlier comment that there is always this tension about hoarding versus trying to sell off the assets and avoiding fire sales. There's always controversies in the war with the RTC as well about people making money buying at the bottom, but that's an operational issue, strategic issue for the asset management company. They sometimes feel that by getting a few assets out there that begins to get some transactions and that gets things going. That's a strategic, a strategic decision.