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Category Archive: FDR

  1. Mark-To-Market Accounting – The Boogeyman Of The 1930s Is Back

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    I won­der how many peo­ple real­ize that that FDR got rid of mark-to-market account­ing in 1938 after it vir­tu­ally destroyed the bank­ing sec­tor. Accord­ing to Brian Wes­bury and Robert Stein mark-to-market account­ing was the law of the land for most of the Great Depres­sion until it was out­lawed by FDR in 1938. Wes­bury and Stein […] [read full story]

    Posted in: BANKS, Credit Crisis, Depression, economy, FASB, FDR, Finance, Great Depression, Mark to market accounting, Public Policy

  2. Regulatory Reform is Needed Now To Prevent The Next Bubble and Crisis

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    Like a pet ger­bil run­ning end­lessly on a cir­cu­lar wheel, Gov­ern­ment lead­ers are putting all of us on the eco­nomic tread­mill of ser­ial fail­ure. Calls for an imme­di­ate inves­ti­ga­tion into what went wrong and why are going largely unheeded as gov­ern­ment lead­ers claim that a witch hunt is the last thing we need now. Well, I […] [read full story]

    Posted in: Bernanke, Bush Administration, Chris Cox, Credit Crisis, economy, FDR, Finance, Fiscal Policy, McCain, Obama, Paulson, SEC