IAS39 is an important question of principle: how should assets and liabilities be measured?

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We question the principle of 'market based solutions' in this context.

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The next principle you need to question is the importance of duration, or years to maturity.

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The first question to ask of such an approach is, could it work in principle?

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Even many Germans who back a Holocaust memorial in principle question the form it is most likely to take a labyrinth of some 2, 500 concrete pillars spreading across a plot of 20, 000 square metres between the Brandenburg Gate and the (unmarked) site of Hitler's bunker.

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