But ever bigger business also had a profound social impact, and here the ledger entries were not all in the positive column.

That will be a difficult balancing act.

Doing so requires balancing many concerns.

And everywhere there are books, books, books.

The major accounting firms have clearly established a culture of permissiveness towards earnings manipulation.

In the meantime, the IMF and the G 20 can help by finding better ways to assess the vulnerability of each country s financial structure no easy task, given governments immense cleverness when it comes to cooking their books. Policymakers can also help find ways to reduce barriers to the development of stock markets, and to advance ideas for new kinds of state contingent bonds, such as the GDP linked bonds that Yale s Robert Shiller has proposed.

In the meantime, the IMF and the G 20 can help by finding better ways to assess the vulnerability of each country s financial structure no easy task, given governments immense cleverness when it comes to cooking their books.

How does one decide when, and in what way, to rebalance one s portfolio?

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One consequence of all of this is that the government can no longer balance its books and has started to discuss spending cuts and new taxes, in particular a sales tax.

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Are accounting gimmicks being used to overstate the true value of foreign capital contributions?

In trying to balance such considerations, the government is in over its head.

How many trees should be planted each year to balance the number those chopped down?

Are these your books? No, they're not my books.

Are these your books? No, they're not my books.

Other IMF accounting practices, including how the capital expenditures of government owned enterprises are treated, are also causing outrage.

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