In 2008-2009 the U.S. and global economy was on life support due to failures in the home mortgage markets. Now, in 2023, the stage is set for what could be another U.S. and global financial crisis. This time the crisis is coming from the commercial real estate market and will likely expand to impair another 200 or more medium-sized banks and savings and loans. We also feature Emmanuel Probst as an additional example of the breadth and depth of UCLA Extension educational offerings (brand development and consumer marketing). In a future Podcast we’ll include a UCLA expert in Artificial Intelligence given the rate of global expansion in AI and Chat GPT.