Tag: AIG
Michael Lewis has written an extraordinary piece on the AIG failure for Vanity Fair. As with most of his work, the article is informative, funny and written in an …
As Baron von Ottomatic previously noted, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the poorly managed government-backed mortgage giants whose collapse largely precipitated the current economic crisis and triggered AIG's …
The Obama administration has given General Motors 60 days to come up with a plan to justify another round of tax payer infusions that would ostensibly stave off a …
Via The Anchoress, here is a short blurb written by Mike Rowe, host of The Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs", in response to a reader's question about the AIG bonus …
So President Obama wants government oversight of executive pay and bonuses at banks, investment firms, and God-only-knows where else as a part of proposed plan to "overhaul financial regulation." …
Well, they did it; from Yahoo! News: Acting swiftly, the Democratic-led House approved a bill Thursday to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses at firms bailed out by …
FoxBusiness is currently featuring this graphic, courtesy of OpenSecrets.org: There's more on the AIG-Dodd story over at PoliGazette, where blogger Michael Merritt notes that the actual amount of money …