Suspending mark-to-market helps banks in the sense they wouldn't have to mark down their assets constantly, but it would do nothing to improve the market's faith in the numbers.

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Paulson, the president and the SEC should also give firm orders to bank regulators to start exercising common sense with regard to their mark-to-market mania.

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How company began: After business school and a stint in the Dutch Marines, Mark Diks--a no-nonsense type with a wry sense of humor--went to work as head of sales at his family's iron-bed manufacturer, where he saw how fragmented the furnishings market was.

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That makes perfect sense to us, actually -- DSLRs with video capabilities like the 5D Mark II and the new Rebel T1i have definitely shaken up people's expectations of prosumer video, and Canon's sitting on a well-regarded camcorder division primed to pounce on a new market.

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