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What the Former SEC Chairmen Missed...
November 19, 2009
Don't Let Banks Hide Bad Assets | online.wsj.com
Conceptually, the arguments favoring fair value accounting are sound and quite appealing. Unquestionably, financial statement users will benefit from data about how a company’s assets and liabilities change in value during a reporting period. However, there are two major issues associated with fair...
Why Not? What Would Happen If We Did?
August 23, 2009
Transparency in Derivatives | norris.blogs.nytimes.com
The first question that comes to mind is “What are they tiring to hide and why”? Under ordinary circumstances when two or more parties are conducting any type of financial transaction for as little as one cent up to Billions of Dollars, Yen, Euro’s or any other currency, transparency is provided through...
The Fed, The Economy, Accounting and Regulation - Changing Landscape for a New Century
June 24, 2009
US Groups Face Regulatory Revamp | www.ft.com
Banks, Insurance companies, Investment bankers, Hedge funds - they are all up against the wall facing new regulatory pressures. The Alan Greenspan era is over. Alan Greenspan was supposed to have a magic wand with which nothing went wrong. Its like Napoleon asking for a few lucky generals - Greenspan...
Bubbleburst of derivative market and its consequences
November 3, 2008
The $1,300 Trillion Derivative Market | maxkapital.blogspot.com
The derivative market has grown to such a massive proportion due to the speculative activities and the intention of the players to make quick profit. The market operation in derivatives requires only the margin money which is about one tenth of the value of underlying security, the expansionof...
Derivative Market Risk - Bad But Not End Of World Scenario
October 23, 2008
The $1,300 Trillion Derivative Market | maxkapital.blogspot.com
This post looks at the size of the derivative market and seeks to understand the economic exposure to the financial system from risks embedded in this market.
October 13, 2008
Alls Fair: The Crisis and Fair-Value Accounting | www.cfo.com
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Method of Valuation of Assets - How useful in preventing the turmoil.
October 10, 2008
Alls Fair: The Crisis and Fair-Value Accounting | www.cfo.com
In the present context, Mr. John McCain rightly says that "Fair value rules may be exacerbating the credit crunch", since the market reacts and stabilizes on sentiments. While strictly applying the valuation rule of mark to market accounting, the assets held by the investment companies will be vaued...
October 3, 2008
Alls Fair: The Crisis and Fair-Value Accounting | www.cfo.com
Why does the SEC not enforce the rule against "naked short selling?"
How to eliminate souvereign funds!
May 12, 2008
The invasion of the sovereign-wealth funds: The biggest worry about rich Arab and Asian states buying up Wall Street is the potential backlash. | www.economist.com
1. Souvereign funds based on the undue accumulation of unproductive foreign reserves can only exist in a mercantilist system of fixed or pegged exchange rates. 2. By moving towards a complete floating exchange rate system, foreign reserve accumulations will be driven to zero and, ergo, also the...
Epistemological Risk or Why the SEC Can't Determine What Fair Value Is
April 14, 2008
SEC fails to douse debate over ‘fair value’ | www.ft.com
Investors and traders need "buy," "hold" and "sell: signals based on intrinsic value models, e.g., bond, stock, futures, options, swap, real estate, etc. models, but there is no consensus, even among expert economists, what are "fair" intrinsic value models, although a minority consensus is emerging,...
The Fair Value Debate - The Political Imperative - A Exercise in Futility?
November 19, 2009
What the Former SEC Chairmen Missed...
November 19, 2009
What Have the Accountants Done For Us Lately?
November 19, 2009
Virtual stealing or hold ups? same end result.
November 15, 2009
Microsoft investing in Cloud Computing or a Server and PDA line of Computers?
November 18, 2009
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