Creative re-writing makes mockery of US capital rules
When is tier one capital not tier one capital? Whenever the US Treasury decides, apparently. Playing fast and loose with those rules is just the latest in a string of decisions that show the US government failing to think through the implications of its hasty bail-out proposals.
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