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...Department's program to buy toxic loans could cost banks as much as $210 billion. That's the losses the financial firms will book from selling poorly performing loans as part of the government's recently announced Public-Private Investment Plan. What's more, if a recently proposed accounting rule change is not made, PPIP's bottom line effect on the banks could be more than triple that...
...loss could potentially be much bigger. Current rules require banks to hold assets that trade on their books at the value they would fetch if a bank had to sell them to another investor. Loans typically don't trade, so the rule typically only applies to stocks or bonds a bank might happen...
...change to mark-to-market rules will save banks a bundle," says Robert Willens, a corporate accounting expert. "Under the new rule, you can't mark your loans to market even if you wanted...
...very least, the PPIP plan probably means that the proposed accounting change, which could be enacted as soon as the next few weeks, to mark-to-market rules has to happen. But even with the rule change, banks are still probably going to need more money the government in order to make the PPIP plan a success...
Profiles in Foreclosure "House of Cards" paints a sad picture of two people who allegedly followed all the rules yet are still in jeopardy of losing their homes, but I'm short on sympathy [March 9]. My grandfather had a rule, and it was to never spend capital gains on disposables. In other words, don't cash out of real estate to buy junk you don't need. Paula Stevens refinanced three times so she could spend freely on "clothes and gear for her girls"? Are you kidding me? Sorry, but while there certainly are legitimate cases of distressed homeowners...