Deferred tax liabilities, off-balance sheet debt, and asset write-downs result in a bloated balance of which most investors are not aware.

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But I think his point about Congress was simply that the Supreme Court, since the New Deal, has deferred to the legislature, those who are elected by people around the country to write laws for them, and in this matter, on matters of national economic importance, to pass laws that regulate the economy and regulate areas of the economy like our health care market.

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As I write in Three Felonies a Day, the feds forced the accounting firm KPMG to enter into an unjust deferred prosecution agreement because an indictment would without any doubt have destroyed it.

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