Back in April, I wrote a column detailing the looming train wreck in the commercial real estate market. It turned out to be a rather controversial piece. How controversial? You can judge for yourself here in my April column: The Commercial Real Estate Sector: As The Other Shoe Drops – Be Wary of Bank Stocks. It was groundbreaking enough to land me a spot on Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News.

Virtually nobody else was talking about the topic and a number of readers e-mailed to tell me how daft I was for even mentioning it. But I sensed the mess coming a mile away.