Ken Kam CEO of Marketocracy on why laxed accounting laws are falsely propping up banks' balance sheets.
This is what I have been saying since April. FASB relaxed the mark-to-market accounting rules that allowed banks to not report their losses and come with these fictitious earnings. Please see my April 4th article "The End of Mark-to-market Accounting Rules End of Transparency Era"
http://the-us-microeconomics.blogspot.com/2009/04/mark-to-market-accounting-rolls-end-of.html
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