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To: AmericaUnited

So far, banks have been unwilling to do so, because they’ve been valuing the debt way above market value in order to maintain capital ratios.

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Do you have facts to support that?? Any audited company (which all the banks are) would need to take the write-down every quarter when they release earnings. In these days of Sarbanes Oxley, no auditor would allow a company to release earnings that didn’t have an “attempt” to write them down to market.

IMO, the issue is that the write-downs have been taken but right now they are paper losses. By selling to the goverment, they become real losses.


132 posted on 09/21/2008 12:55:41 PM PDT by koraz
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To: koraz

That statement was copied from the other poster. You would have to ask them. What they probably meant is that they were using “phony” market values, above actual.


134 posted on 09/21/2008 12:59:55 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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