Should mark-to-market accounting be suspended?

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Albert Wenger
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. There is definitely that possibility but suspending the mark to market rule would go a long way toward avoiding that.
	9/21/2009 11:28:01 AM

Timothy F. Geithner
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. Geithner believes they help protect investors and promote transparency.
	1/28/2009 10:18:08 AM

Mark Cuban
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. My proposal is that we suspend mark to market rules
	12/10/2008 6:39:43 PM

Mort Kondracke
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. rule came into effect in 1997, so eliminating it - and evaluating securities on the basis of a property's "intrinsic value" - would immediately bolster the banks.
	12/9/2008 3:42:10 PM

The Economist
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. "...stance [lacks] credibility."
	12/9/2008 11:16:29 AM

Daniel Gross
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. arguments for it are "simple and really quite silly"
	12/6/2008 4:43:35 PM

Henry Blodget
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. "Without mark-to-market, there's a lot more risk of a Japan-style scenario, where banks live in denial for years abotu how far up the creek they are."
	11/18/2008 2:09:49 PM

Gary Miller (R-CA)
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. I believe the Securities and Exchange Commission, in consultation with the Federal Reserve, should revise fair value accounting standards to help bring stability to the financial marketplace
	11/18/2008 12:53:27 PM

Warren Buffett
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. I believe in mark to market
	11/15/2008 3:05:40 PM

Carl Levin
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. A final provision in the bill that was added at the last minute may also come back to haunt the American public
	11/10/2008 3:26:48 PM

Robert D. McTeer
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. "It is time for common sense to come before accounting purity and cut our losses."
	11/1/2008 2:21:19 PM

Steve Sauerberg (R-IL)
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. Sauerberg urged a temporary repeal of the capital gains tax; an end to “mark-to-market” accounting
	11/1/2008 2:00:01 PM

Jim DeMint
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. Suspend “Mark to Market” Accounting
	11/1/2008 10:53:40 AM

Elizabeth Dole
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. Suspending the highly controversial “mark to market” accounting standard.
	10/31/2008 2:19:09 PM

Brian Wesbury
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. "...a simple, decentralized system of forgiving mark-to-market accounting temporarily, and in a targeted fashion, is a much better option."
	10/31/2008 2:03:34 PM

Christopher Cox
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. "Current mark-to-market models - which call for firms to price assets versus the market on a daily basis - provide great benefits to some of the alternatives."
	10/31/2008 2:01:48 PM

Ben Bernanke
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. Would only further erode investor confidence
	10/31/2008 1:59:16 PM

Matthew Yglesias
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. Suspension would allow financial institutions to recapitalize themselves through handwaving and cooking the books
	10/31/2008 1:14:31 PM

Candice Miller (R-MI)
	Mark-to-market accounting should be suspended. A "common sense solution"
	10/31/2008 1:14:22 PM

Floyd Norris
	Mark-to-market accounting should not be suspended. "Its efforts to change accounting rules to hide its problems are sad and appalling."
	10/31/2008 1:14:03 PM