Once again, Kudos to IBM for doing well by doing good. Has anyone used XBRL for tracking bank money and the way banks do things like the SEC requires them to do? There is no better non-transparency than putting everything out in the open in simple enigmatic, blatantly obscure terms.
Wells Fargo currently has umpteen complaints filed against them in the Better Business Bureau in California and many complaints filed in courts -- but the complaints do not appear to be using XBRL. If we assume that only 1% or less of the complaints are half true, we may be looking at some rather large tax liabilities, among other problems, that are not being dealt with and we need some XBRL gurus and wizards in-house. Look, I blew covering the last big bank stories and XBRL is supposed to make it very difficult to do that again. The cover of the book, free from IBM, looks just like the other "Dummy" books -- yellow with black print and a sketch of me on the front, so I expect, non sequiturly, FOIA and FOAA people to have some predummy interpretations on XBRL, with simple examples that won't get anyone shot. But I can't find them. However, print the book out and put it out on your desk and no one will be able to accuse you of being intelligent or that you should have known. Dwight Hines IndyMedia Maine, where even the big banks tread softly in the winter, and I'm looking forward to the opening of the "First Museum on Planet Earth Devoted to Imaginary Software that the Maine Legislature Passes Laws Against", with serious apologies to Borges, father of *Imaginary Beings*. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.foiadvocates.info/private.cgi/foianet-foiadvocates.info/attachments/20111210/0379545a/attachment.htm>
