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To: BGHater
You got a loan on the value of your house when you bought it.

Given today's real estate market, the value of your home is probably less today.

But, if you were forced to value it at zero, even though you are current, solely because you can't sell it tomorrow, how would your balance sheet look? Could you get another loan? Could you continue doing business as usual?

I regret you fail to understand the proposition -- the audit/accounting rules worked quite well for over one hundred years...until Sarbanes-Oxley.

14 posted on 04/02/2009 10:13:49 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: okie01

Thank you for your reasoned words. Sarbanes-Oxley has been a festering boil on the arse of the financial markets as long as it has existed.

Just how long must we pay for the Enron blow out?

How many trillions do we dump down the hole in penance?

Color me disgusted....


17 posted on 04/02/2009 10:19:29 AM PDT by texmexis best (uency)
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To: okie01
Nobody said to value it zero, just vale at ‘todays’ market, that is the ‘value’ of it.

Market value reveals the price of it.

18 posted on 04/02/2009 10:22:26 AM PDT by BGHater (Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
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