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The net effect would be to achieve the same thing in abnormal times as scrapping mark to market without actually scrapping mart to market, which works well in normal times

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POPS Some See Investment Rats In The Year Of The Ox

by Forbes Markets 2-10-2009

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POPS Failed U.S. Bank #8, 2009: Alliance Bank, Culver City, CA

by Forbes Markets 2-6-2009

And another one falls...

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POPS Failed U.S. Bank #7, 2009: FirstBank Financial Services, McDonough, GA

by Forbes Markets 2-6-2009

And were not even into Week 7 of the year....

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POPS Always Bet On The Hermès Ties

by Forbes Markets 1-29-2009

Rob Cox gives a history lesson of why it is the investment bankers who usually come out on top in banking marriages no matter how good or bad the deal is, and the Merrill-BofA one doesn't look so great.

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POPS Will Banks Become Utilities

by Fred Allen 1-21-2009

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POPS The Bailout: Obama's Turn

by Brian Wingfield 1-17-2009

This is going to grow into a much larger story in the coming months. The original $700 billion in TARP money is not nearly enough to grease the credit markets, buy up bad assets and provide foreclosure relief to millions of homeowners. After the inaugural parties, are over, the Obama administration deals with the task of remedying the country's economic hangover. First step: spending the remaining $350 billion in TARP money (actually a little less, because some of it is already spoken for). Why should the Bush administration have all the spending fun?

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POPS Worst May Be Over For Banks' Balance Sheets: Gross

by Forbes Markets 1-16-2009

They can only hope...

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POPS China Allows Small- And Mid-Size Banks Larger Lending Room To Support Economy

by Forbes Markets 1-10-2009

Yet more measures to stop China's growth rate slowing below the magic 8% mark.

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POPS Pawnbrokers Thrive On Recession

by Melanie Lindner 1-5-2009

Since bank loans are hard to come by these days, cash-strapped, middle-class Americans are turning to alternative lenders like pawnbrokers to fill the void. For other alternative lending options, check out Banking 2.0: New Capital Connections For Entrepreneurs http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/11/lending-online-banking-ent-fin-cx_mf_0211capital.html

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POPS Evans Says Fed Needs To Mimic Below-Zero Rates

by Forbes Markets 1-4-2009

One 'quantitative measure' would be for the Fed to buy large quantities of assets from banks, say, mortgage backed securities.

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POPS BofA CCB Stake Sale Scuttled By China Rule

by Forbes Markets 12-19-2008

Not that that law exists by accident. It is intended to stop foreign investors in strategic Chinese industries selling key stakes. Next year, the lockups on two other Chinese banks expire, too.

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POPS Ace Greenberg: Wall St. As He Knew It Is 'Finished'

by Forbes Markets 12-10-2008

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POPS Wachovia Execs May Get $98.1M Severence

by Forbes Markets 11-24-2008

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POPS Level 2 and Level 3 Assets On The Rise

by Forbes Markets 11-20-2008

With no TARP money for toxic assets, this was only to be expected

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POPS Treasury Considers Private Capital Role In TARP: Report

by Forbes Markets 11-12-2008

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