Burning Billions (March 6, 2009)

Special Report on how fair-value accounting rules are destroying bank capital

 
[This article was posted on March 6, 2009 on the website of ABA Banking Journal, www.ababj.com, and is copyright 2009 by the American Bankers Association.] 
 
March Cover Story: Burning Billions

 

Online Extras
FDR Nixed Fair-Value In 1938
 
FHLB Stock Meets “OTTI”

   

Other Resources
SEC’s Report on Fair-Value Accounting      
 
SEC’s Fair-Value Accounting Issues Page
 
Group of Thirty Report (Order Online, Not Free)
 
ABA Fair-Value Accounting Page

ABA Accounting Policy Page (Press Orientation, But Useful)

ABA Other Than Temporarily Impaired Page (Members Only)

ABA White Paper  on FHLB OTTI Issue (Members Only)

ABA’s Latest Fair-Value Disclosure Comment Letter
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