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Bill Black on Modern Accounting Fraud

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  • Accounting fraud creates short term accounting profits followed by huge losses.
  • At its peak 40% of mortgages in the United States were not prime!
  • The average CFO in America lasts ~ 3 years. If your rivals engage in accounting fraud and you do not then you last much less than that average…maybe a quarter or 2. Bad ethics drive good ethics out of the market.

Bruce Bartlett’s The GOP’s Misplaced Rage is another lens on the politics behind the real estate bubble.

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August 17th, 2009 at 8:48 am

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