#26 Planet Money: Accounting Rules




Planet Money show

Summary: Gather 'round, economy nerds. This week the Financial Accounting Standards Board gave banks a break from mark-to-market accounting. Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson tease apart the knotty questions of what this means, why this matters, and who won what. Plus: China gets almost nothing it wanted out of the G20 summit. And listener Aimee Ennis checks in from a neighborhood on hold.