Judging by the million-dollar football salaries, you'd be forgiven for thinking the UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations -- agreed in 2009 as a way of controlling clubs' ever-rising expenditure -- had done little to stem spending.
At DFW Airport, travelers in and out of Terminal D and the Skylink train stations are greeted by a multimillion-dollar display of murals and sculpture.
If there was true mark-to-market reform we wouldn't need Geithner's plan--banks could keep the assets on their balance sheets since they'd be more realistically marked, probably around 60 cents on the dollar.