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发表于 2010-10-15 02:43 PM
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how do the banks cook their book by sitting idle with all the houses if they limit the number on ...
Simpletrader 发表于 2010-10-15 16:28 
The trick is called "mark to model", some people call it "mark to myth".
Before 2008, accounting rule requires "mark to market". The house value would be severely undervalued at 2008. $1.00, will be valued at 30 or 40 cents, but more realistic number should be 70cents. With severely undervalued houses, all banks will be in big trouble --- by law, they were all bankrupt.
But the society can not afford all banks go bankrupt, so the accounting law was changed to "mark to model". Therefore, the bank can claim their house worth 70 cents, 80 cents, as long as they give out a reasonable model. This is what the society wanted to see. Problem solved. This is win-win-win-win-win-... situation. |
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