Quote from circadian:
This is absurd, absolutely absurd. The patient is dying, and we have now decided to throw a sheet over him.
Maybe 'they' won't notice, at least until the stench is overwhelming.
Mark-to-model will hang over our heads like a guillotine, mark my words. Toxic debt holders will lever and adjust "earnings" based off of proprietary model valuations, the debt will continue to non-perform, and more losses will be had.
Maybe the taxpayers will get lucky, and have the privelege of paying 75 cents for something that was worth 3 pennies under mark-to-market, just 2 weeks ago. I had a feeling that this was going to happen.
Gotta love opacity.