Comments on: The Accounting Trick Behind Thirty Years of Scandal http://business.time.com/2012/08/15/the-accounting-trick-behind-thirty-years-of-scandal/ The latest news and commentary on the economy, the markets, and business Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: News Round-up: Role of repo, securitization and shadow banking unsettled in post-crisis world | RepoWatch http://business.time.com/2012/08/15/the-accounting-trick-behind-thirty-years-of-scandal/#comment-29827 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:20:34 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46588#comment-29827 [...] “Years of Scandal” by Christopher Matthews, Time, August 15: America has been afflicted with one financial scandal after another over the past generation – culminating in the 2008 financial panic, the effects of which we are still suffering under. It has widely been assumed that each of these scandals have had disparate causes, but in their new paper (William) Bratton and (Adam) Levitin argue that three of the most notorious scandals of the past generation — Michael Milken’s junk-bond-related securities fraud in the 1980s, the Enron scandal of the early 2000s, and the subprime mortgage meltdown of 2007-08 — are all linked by their use of an esoteric accounting mechanism called a “special purpose entity,” or SPE. [...]

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