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AIG stories: 204 news summaries

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 AIG Bailout 
 Has Failed: 
 Greenberg 

Government should focus on reducing stake, restructuring firm, former CEO says

Apr 2, 09 12:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - AIG’s former CEO told Congress today the bailout of the insurance firm has “failed” and that the government should restructure the company, the Wall Street Journal reports. At a House committee hearing, Hank Greenberg said he blamed his successors for the firm’s implosion: "I think they... More »

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insurance companies • insurance • AIG • Hank Greenberg • bailout • financial crisis • Wall Street bailout

Former AIG Chief Greenberg
to Testify Today

'I don't feel any responsibility,' 38-year CEO says of AIG

Apr 2, 09 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former AIG chief Maurice “Hank” Greenberg will go before a House committee on Capitol Hill today, testifying about the world-wide conglomerate that is now the most infamous culprit of the financial crisis, despite efforts by both the GOP and current AIG management to undercut his credibility. Greenberg is expected... More »

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testimony • AIG • Hank Greenberg • bailout • financial crisis • Wall Street bailout

Grassley Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot

Alternate headline for long image right layout: Gaffe Machine Grassley Isn't Sorry / Dek: That's just how we talk in Iowa, he insists

Apr 1, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chuck Grassley has been on a roll. First, he told AIG execs to commit seppuku, then he accused the company of "sucking the t— of the taxpayer." Then, in a back-and-forth with Kent Conrad, he had his YouTube moment: "Oh, you’re good," the Senate budget... More »

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Iowa • GOP • Senate Republicans • Charles Grassley • AIG • gaffe • US Senate

ANALYSIS

 Obama Fully Invested 
 as CEO-in-Chief 

In Detroit and on Wall St., president decides to run things his way

Mar 31, 09 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Though he entered office with relatively little business experience, the past week has seen President Obama assume the role as “the most powerful player in American business today,” Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei write for Politico. “He’s realizing, ‘Hey, the economy’s mine now, and... More »

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General Motors • Rahm Emanuel • AIG • Rick Wagoner • economy • President Obama • toxic assets

AIG's Woes Point to Larger Insurance Crisis

Federal aid may offer AIG a competitive advantage in ailing industry

Mar 30, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - AIG’s troubles were quickly blamed on a single, obscure wing of the company, but its problems extend to its core life-insurance division—underscoring dangerous weaknesses across the entire industry and pointing to the possibility of a second financial crisis, the Los Angeles Times reports. What's more, by offering AIG... More »

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Federal aid • AIG • bailout • American International Group • life insurance • credit rating • financial crisis

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

Geithner on AIG: 'We Had No Good Choices'

Gates backs Obama on Afghanistan; Petraeus says Cheney wrong

Mar 29, 09 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Timothy Geithner may have reignited the AIG bonus brouhaha on ABC’s This Week just as calls for his ouster had begun to subside. “We had no good choices. The contracts were set,” he said, insisting Treasury acted quickly to renegotiate the parts of the bonuses it could.... More »

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Afghanistan • North Korea • Robert Gates • AIG • Sarah Palin • Timothy Geithner

analysis

Will the Real Chris Dodd Please Stand Up?

Senator part populist, part bank ally

Mar 27, 09 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chris Dodd is a man of contradictions, writes David Whitford for Fortune. The Democratic senator portrays himself as a populist; he’s passed consumer-protection and family-issues laws, and he staunchly opposed the bankruptcy bill. But he’s also received loads of cash from financial companies, including AIG, and... More »

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Chris Dodd • AIG • campaign contributions • Senate Banking Committee • bank regulation

AIG Honchos Quit Paris Office, Spurring Fears of Default

$234B at stake as top managers walk

Mar 26, 09 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two of the top managers at AIG's Paris unit have resigned, reports the Wall Street Journal, leaving the insurer scrambling to avoid potential defaults on $234 billion in derivative transactions. The complicated scenario results from a French law that says regulators must approve of the managers' replacements or else pick... More »

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France • derivatives market • AIG • default • American International Group • financial crisis • regulator

(Newser) - Some AIG executives in Europe think the demands that they return their bonuses are tantamount to "blackmail," Reuters reports. In fact, a compliance officer for Banque AIG unit in London asked UK authorities to determine whether the demands for repayment constitute extortion. He encouraged others in an email... More »

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Wall Street • London • AIG • executive bonuses

OPINION

AIG Employee Tells Liddy:
You Betrayed Us

VP's resignation letter rips cowardly CEO, grandstanding pols

Mar 25, 09 9:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Though he says he’s blameless for the mess that brought down AIG, and worked 14-hour days at $1 a year to help dismantle the insurer, executive Jake DeSantis feels “betrayed” by CEO Edward Liddy—and lets him know in a resignation letter published by the New York Times.... More »

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executive compensation • AIG • bonuses • American International Group • Edward Liddy • financial crisis • grandstanding • Jake DeSantis

ANALYSIS

'Professor in Chief' Stern on Recovery

Hammers budget as
key to turnaround in prime-time presser

Mar 25, 09 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last night's prime-time news conference showed Barack Obama at his most serious; tempering his trademark oratorical skills, he became a "placid and unsmiling professor in chief," write Peter Baker and Adam Nagourney in the New York Times. After the frenzy of the previous week, the president went out... More »

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Barack Obama • president • press conference • AIG • economy • prime time

 Geithner Asks Congress 
 for Broad Takeover Powers 

Defends actions during AIG bailout

Mar 24, 09 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Timothy Geithner today asked Congress for expanded power to take the helm of big, failing  institutions like AIG and wind them down in an orderly fashion, Reuters reports. “AIG highlights broad failures of our financial system," Geithner said in unusually spirited testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.... More »

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Ben Bernanke • testimony • AIG • Treasury Department • bank regulation • Obama administration • financial crisis • Timothy Geithner

Market Open

 Stocks Pull Back Off Huge Rally 


Mar 24, 09 8:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks pulled back this morning off yesterday’s heady rally. The Dow sank 77 points, after skyrocketing nearly 500 points in yesterday’s session. The S&P and Nasdaq dropped 1.3% and 1.4% respectively. AIG was the big story, with Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke set to testify... More »

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stock market • Dow Jones • Nasdaq • AIG • S&P 500 • Timothy Geithner

(Newser) - The IRS is challenging a series of tax-skirting deals engineered by the much-maligned AIG Financial Products unit, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deals exploited differences in international tax codes to reduce tax payments for foreign banks—many of the same banks the US government would later pay to... More »

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IRS • AIG • Internal Revenue Service • tax code • bailout • tax haven

AIG Bonus Tax Is Stalled, Likely to Die in Senate

Lawmakers likely to let special tax die, with the nod from Obama

Mar 24, 09 7:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - With populist outrage cooling and the White House even cooler, the 90% AIG bonus tax that sailed through the House last week is stalled in the Senate, where it's likely to die, reports Bloomberg. Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday this week will be devoted to debating national service and... More »

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Congress • taxes • executive compensation • Senate • Harry Reid • Jon Kyl • House of Representatives • AIG • bonuses • Kent Conrad • President Obama

 Feds Seek Expanded Power 
 to Seize Shaky Companies  

Treasury sec should be able to seize non-bank firms, says administration

Mar 24, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is expected to ask Congress for expanded powers that would let the Treasury secretary seize insurers, hedge funds, and other non-bank financial companies whose failure would imperil the economy, reports the Washington Post. While negotiations are ongoing, the plans to expand Treasury authority would represent a major... More »

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AIG • Treasury Department • regulation • bank regulation • Obama administration • Treasury secretary • financial crisis • Timothy Geithner

(Newser) - Workers pulled down an AIG sign in New York City today as the insurer sought to rebrand itself and deflect outrage over executive bonuses, Reuters reports. The company's Manhattan property-casualty office, renamed AIU Holdings Ltd, wasn't the first to change its name since the bailout started last fall. AIG's US ... More »

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AIG • credit crisis • bailout

(Newser) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today that most of the top bonus recipients at AIG have agreed to return the money, amounting to more than $50 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Fifteen of the top 20 beneficiaries of $165 million at AIG's Financial Products unit—which played... More »

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Wall Street • Andrew Cuomo • AIG • executive bonuses

OPINION

Time to Forget AIG and Nab Offshore Cash

We're fretting about millions in bonuses, while firms hide billions

Mar 23, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Everyone’s aflutter about the AIG bonuses—but there’s a much more lucrative way to take Wall Street to task than obsessing over $165 million, writes Joe Conason in Salon. The government should instead focus on the billions that financial firms are putting in offshore tax havens. Corporate tax... More »

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Wall Street • tax evasion • bank • AIG • corporate America • tax haven

(Newser) - The White House might not be onboard with bills sprinting through Congress to tax away AIG’s outrage-inducing bonuses. Top White House financial advisers are reacting coolly to the suggestion, the Washington Post reports. “The president has been clear we don’t want to govern out of anger,... More »

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Joe Biden • White House • AIG • bonuses • Obama administration • clawback

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