I think it was done to avoid a system wide panic, if they had to write those things down to what they could actually sell them for we would have seen shear terror in the market. IMHO.
"Talk is Cheap, it takes money to buy your freedom and the taxman is knocking on the door." from Carnival World by Jimmy Buffett.
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