AIG Ponders Lawsuit over Bailout Terms
Complaints about high-interests on loans
Allegation is that feds used AIG for a "backdoor bailout" of Wall Street
It'll replenish the National Flood Insurance Program, which is actually part of the problem
Washing away the stink of favoritism and failure is a long ways away
The bailout exemplifies much of what's wrong with government.
Whoa! There's something the feds won't promise to bailout.
What a surprise. Another colossal government failure.
234.2 million shares, 15 percent of the bailed-out insurer
GM shares trade at half the value needed for taxpayers to break even
Will provide at least €5 billion of financial guarantees
The complaints of an independent Irish politician have reached the E.U. Court of Justice
Sen. Jim DeMint leads effort to force states to clean up their own messes
That's not the sort of thing you can make up in volume
Used threat to raid company's cash to lop off $10 millions in debt to FDIC
It's a train Pennsylvania taxpayers might wish they'd missed
The government is holding $10.1 billion worth of stock and sitting on an unrealized loss of $16.4 billion.
Taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $3.2 billion.
Second quarter in a row lender didn't need bailout to stay solvent.
The government-bailed-out company did exceedingly well in North America, home to the government that bailed it out
Once-a-month quotes from the Obama administration and the media about how the economy will be booming any minute now.
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