Within the past few weeks, two government agencies issued competing "clarifications" of the mark-to-market rule.
Why does an avowedly deregulatory Mr Byers not let the market rule?
Leaders from Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy vowed over the weekend to revamp regulations of their financial sectors and loosen accounting rules, such as the mark-to-market rule.
India is seen as one of the few exceptions to the market saturation rule.
In March 2009 the House of Representatives made clear its displeasure with the mark-to-market accounting rule, which was substantially modified.
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Asia's smart bankers follow a hard-nosed, market-led rule of thumb: Use technology to reach the client.
Some crowdfunding portals contend that free market principles should rule the day, and the floodgates of crowdfunding should be thrown open with no restrictions.
In the current crisis, where there is no real market, the rule has forced massive write-downs, which have precipitated solvency and counter-party credit concerns that have caused further write-downs.
They blame a bookkeeping rule known as mark-to-market accounting a rule that regulators may soon change.
Perhaps the most notable aspect of the sale, from a market perspective: While the rule of thumb for jewelry at auction is that on the secondary market pieces bring only a third of their original price, this collection reaped a hefty profit for the seller.
Nor is it common in the fickle toy industry for one company to rule a market segment for long.
It will be new players who come to rule this market, not previously dominant names like Nokia or RIM, he contends.
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The one-time underdog from Cupertino is the biggest music company in the world and soon may rule the market for e-books as well.
Under the impact of the market system, political rule in China now is not far different from the authoritarian model familiar to East Asians.
The difference is that a free market with an evenhanded rule of law opens up those ranks and sometimes takes down the less astute.
In fact, in 2012, direct investments into private businesses accounted for only about 12% of the total market for Regulation D Rule 506 offerings.
Individuals rule the market with their 401(k) plans or savings.
The good cop-bad cop routine of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin continues to remind Western investors of the hope and disillusionment of this post-Soviet market and its absent rule of law.
The simple rule about market bubbles is to get in and out before they pop, and by that standard the news that Groupon is moving towards an IPO makes all the sense in the world.
Finally, House Republicans should pass legislation removing the discretionary monetary policy powers of the Federal Reserve, mandating it to conduct monetary policy in accordance with a price rule following market prices for gold, silver, oil and other commodities.
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But once the fight against diehard Marxism was won, an equally vicious one began between those who would truly open Russia to the world to market forces and the rule of law and those among the new capitalist oligarchy who prefer the rules of the jungle.
Another problem, of course, is the elimination of the "up-tick" rule, a controversial SEC rule change last July (well-timed to the beginning of the credit market meltdown) that removed the rule that short-selling could only be done when a stock was rising.
The SEC eliminated the rule in July 2007, and market participants have been urging the SEC to reinstate the rule ever since.
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You rule the search market online and you are showing great initiative in translating that expertise into mobile search.
However, netbooks and tablets will continue to rule the PC market with newer technologies and rapid innovation in terms of product design and features.
Sales of flagship Lipitor, the world's best-selling drug, jumped 23% from last year, continuing to rule the cholesterol market and take advantage of the problems being faced by Crestor, from AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ).
Right now, Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ) and Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) rule the arthritis market with Celebrex and Vioxx, which reduce inflammation without causing side effects like ulcers in the stomach or intestine.
It appears that when it comes to the stock market, billionaires may no longer rule supreme.
It's no surprise to anyone but the SEC that market volatility exploded after the uptick rule ceased.
That plus market-to-market accounting, no short uptick rule, and no ban on naked short-selling, led to the avalanche.
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