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The Main St.Avenger in Wall Street Massacre, main objective to murder madoff.

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Another upcoming rally in the financial stocks?

But the biggest news may come Thursday. The Financial Accounting Standards Board is expected to decide whether to modify mark-to-market rules related to bank write-downs of troubled assets.

Some observers say the mark-to-market rules forced banks to take massive write-downs — even on mortgage assets that holders were still consistently paying. Others say a change would be a setback for transparency.

If mark-to-market accounting is dropped, it could boost earnings at the troubled banks by 20% or more, some analysts say.

Those who stand to benefit from such a move — Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo — were huge losers Monday. They fell 12% to 18%, but volume was unexceptional.

Source: Leaders Dodge Pain, But NYSE Adds Distribution Day

For those to whom this is merely a lot of mumbo-jumbo, let me explain in layman's terms: AIG, knowing it would need to ask for much more capital from the Treasury imminently, decided to throw in the towel, and gifted major bank counter-parties with trades which were egregiously profitable to the banks, and even more egregiously money losing to the U.S. taxpayers, who had to dump more and more cash into AIG, without having the U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner disclose the real extent of this, for lack of a better word, fraudulent scam.

In simple terms think of it as an auto dealer, which knows that U.S. taxpayers will provide for an infinite amount of money to fund its ongoing sales of horrendous vehicles (think Pontiac Azteks): the company decides to sell all the cars currently in contract, to lessors at far below the amortized market value, thereby generating huge profits for these lessors, as these turn around and sell the cars at a major profit, funded exclusively by U.S. taxpayers (readers should feel free to provide more gripping allegories).

What this all means is that the statements by major banks, i.e. JPM, Citi, and BofA, regarding abnormal profitability in January and February were true, however these profits were a) one-time in nature due to wholesale unwinds of AIG portfolios, b) entirely at the expense of AIG, and thus taxpayers, c) executed with Tim Geithner's (and thus the administration's) full knowledge and intent, d) were basically a transfer of money from taxpayers to banks (in yet another form) using AIG as an intermediary.

For banks to proclaim their profitability in January and February is about as close to criminal hypocrisy as is possible. And again, the taxpayers fund this "one time profit", which causes a market rally, thus allowing the banks to promptly turn around and start selling more expensive equity (soon coming to a prospectus near you), also funded by taxpayers' money flows into the market. If the administration is truly aware of all these events (and if Zero Hedge knows about it, it is safe to say Tim Geithner also got the memo), then the potential fallout would be staggering once this information makes the light of day.

Source: Exclusive: AIG Was Responsible For The Banks' January & February Profitability