Archive for April 1st, 2009

The “solvent bank” oxymoron and mark-to-market rules

The first thing I learned as a bank trainee, many years ago, was that all banks are insolvent — it is the nature of banking. The banking business consists of borrowing money you have to repay today to lend to someone else who will pay you back tomorrow. If your creditors demand […]

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