October 20, 2008
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Dear Colleagues:
In your study of how the choice of accounting methods affect a bank's balance sheet, I hope you will also be considering, in aggregate, how such changes affect M1 and other measures of our national money supply. I am concerned that mark-to-market methods can lead to rapidly shrinking money supplies and possible deflation- even when the Fed is being accommodative.
I hope this is of some benefit.
Sincerely yours,
Dave
David V. Anderson
Republican Candidate for General Assembly
4th District, Rhode Island
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