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Re:How the U.S. Saved the World from Financial Ruin by koboll on Monday August 06, 2018 @02:39PM (#17700296)
>The Fed continuously lowered regulations to feed the market in an attempt to prevent it from crashing.

Uh... like what?

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Re:How the U.S. Saved the World from Financial Ruin by sertorius on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:06PM (#17701264)
One would be the suspension of mark-to-market accounting procedures, where the requirement to value a bank's assets under current market conditions was suspended and they could value them under "ideal market conditions", which was fairly subjective.
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