By creating a tax wedge between the bid and ask price of financial assets, the APT tax provides incentives to lengthen the average holding period of financial instruments.

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Or he could change accounting rules, giving banks a time out from the relentless, capital-killing mark-to-market rules that require financial firms to price their assets in an environment where no one wants them.

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Or, at a time of economic stagnation in much of the rich West, you might ask yourself why all that cheap money created by central banks seems to have pumped up the price of financial assets to a disturbing extent, while doing little to stimulate job creation.

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The financial institutions with assets that they could not price can now maintain that the mere existence of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) means that there is a potential market for the securities that they could not sell previously.

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Equities account for less than 20% of Chinese households' total financial assets, compared with half in America, so price swings have less impact on spending.

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Because people build collections out of love, she said, they often do not consider them with the same financial rigor that they would apply to other assets, and often just insure items for the price they paid for them.

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