by TJ_98370 » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:12 am
....."It was a massive fraud... a gigantic Ponzi Scheme, a lie and a fraud," Davidowitz says of Wall Street circa 2007. "The whole thing was a fraud and it gets back to the accountants valuing the assets incorrectly."....
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They got away with lying, fraud and "valuing the assets incorrectly" because they called it mark to model!. Only allowing assets to be valued by the actual market, and not by some indecipherable computer modeling scheme, would be a huge step in the right direction with respect to new banking regulations.