Stop allowing banks to borrow and mark their balance sheets to numbers they make up by forcing total transparency.  We also need to have all of these over the counter derivatives traded on open exchanges with significantly less leverage. This was never a problem with free markets, it’s a problem with gray markets with assets that no one knows the value of.  It’s a problem of unregulated insurance for bonds that devious parties can use to force companies out of business AND profit from their demise, with NO legal repercussions.

Posted by Alex, filed under Finance. Date: October 2, 2008, 3:04 pm |

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