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AIG Archive
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Giving Companies the Freedom to Dare
Here’s an AIG commercial that, with hindsight, just drips with delicious irony. For the record: AIG posted one of biggest losses ever in corporate history last year and have since received $US182 billion in bail-out money from the US taxpayer. read moreJuly 16, 2009 9:27 am - 6 Comments -
Wall Street socialism
SolveClimate.com is asking why the American government will step to in to nationalise failing companies like AIG, but it won’t buy profitable companies before they go belly up? And it’s got a suggestion. Why not buy ExxonMobil? (After all it worked for Hugo Chavez!) In the current crisis in the financial markets, even free market [...] read moreSeptember 24, 2008 10:24 am - 80 Comments
