The Fed’s Stress Tests Are a Conceited Look Backwards

To this day it’s said that mark-to-market (MTM) accounting rules are what caused existential troubles for banks and investment banks back in 2008. It sounds so compelling at first glance, but only until readers stop and imagine what the outlook for financial institutions would have been without MTM. No different. As Blackstone co-founder Stephen […]

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