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AIG Insurance Bailout - Billions to Banks (Infographic)

Just where have all those billions gone that you've been paying the bank? This graphic shows that trying to follow the money trail is a lot like pl[...] read more »
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BART Could Owe AIG Investors $40 Billion

Transit agencies around the country, including BART, may have to come up with billions of dollars to repay AIG investors.[...] read more »
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AIG Has Used Much of Its $123 Billion Bailout Loan

The troubled insurance giant American International Group already has consumed three-quarters of a federal $123 billion rescue loan, a little more th[...] read more »
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What's a Guy Gotta Do to Get Fired? A Rant on AIG Bonuses

A lot of ink, both digital and otherwise, has been spilled over the AIG bonus fiasco. A lot, but not enough. I rarely, if ever, side with the populis[...] read more »
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How The AIG Pissed Off Just About Every Person In America [INFOGRAPHIC]

A Visual Guide on how AIG got itself in a whole lot of trouble with the government and pissed off just about every person in America read more »
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AIG and Populist Rage

The AIG bonus situation is infuriating, but are we willing to throw out the rule of law over it? Very little about the situation is fair, yet we see[...] read more »
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Inside AIG: How Is This Acceptable? A Modern Witch Hunt

A high earner quits AIG and writes exactly why in a well thought out letter. We can't blindly punish people without knowing the full story. Everyo[...] read more »
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Timothy Geithner Wants New Powers for Government

In the wake of AIG, Timothy Geithner wants the government to be able to take over non-bank financial institutions -- much the same way the FDIC seize[...] read more »
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Congress, AIG And The Dumbest Financial Move Of The Week

Congress gets “Dumbest Financial Move of the Week” award. Congress-sourcing is the ability to bring masses of pompous, self-entitled bureaucrats toge[...] read more »
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AIG executives spent thousands during hunting trip

Last time, AIG spent hundreds of thousands on a preplanned sales rep reward party. Now it's an $86k hunting party. This is absurd! read more »
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Mr. Taxpayer = Mr. Stockholder

TradeKing CEO Don Montanaro explores a timely question that may dominate the markets for years: How should we analyze and appropriately play our new,[...] read more »
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Cuomo Assails A.I.G. for ‘Outrageous Expenditures’

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo demanded Wednesday that American International Group stop all “unwarranted and outrageous expenditures” read more »
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AIG dumped $74 Billion in Subprime, CDOs on Fed

The Federal Reserve took on more than $74 billion in subprime mortgages, depreciating commercial leases and other assets after Bear Stearns Cos. and [...] read more »
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AIG Still Lobbies to Relax Oversight Rules

Even after receiving an emergency loan that gave the government an 80% ownership stake, American International Group Inc. is spending money to lobby [...] read more »
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How to spend $700 billion in 6 months

After Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner promised to spend up to $100 billion on a toxic asset purchase plan Monday, only $10.2 billion remain unallocat[...] read more »
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