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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 05:22 PM Original message |
CNN Money: AIG Finally Names Names |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. Okay, so does this mean the entities that got bailout funds |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. I was just watching CNN, and it appears that they were saying that most |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 05:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. CNN is just reporting what AIG released today. The numbers speak for themselves. |
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Bolo Boffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. Societe Generale (big French bank) got $11 billion |
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rhombus (678 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
4. Why are US tax payers being forced to bail out foreign banks? |
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Bolo Boffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 05:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Because AIG sold them obligations to do so. |
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rhombus (678 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 05:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Well, then it's time to fully nationalize AIG then |
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Lucky Luciano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 06:04 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. The point of pumping money into AIG was to prevent systemic |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 06:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. What's outrageous is that some 80% of the $62 trillion in credit default swaps were speculative. |
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Lucky Luciano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. So you want to outlaw low strike puts too since |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 07:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Heads these gamblers win, tails we taxpayers lose.Credit Phil Gramm's Commodity Futures Trading Act- |
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Life Long Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 08:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. They are nothing more than a bunch of con men who have scammed the mortgage loan system. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
9. WHY THE FUCK WEREN'T CONDITIONS SET |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-15-09 06:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I don't know why we can't just tell AIG to break the contracts |
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beachmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 09:20 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Because it would take down Europe. |
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