From: Travis Subject: Cagle Newsletter: AIG Horrors Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009,
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Forget the bleating of Rush Limbaugh, the problem is not with the quite reasonable and, if anything, underfunded stimulus package, which in any case will be debated long and hard in Congress. What is not being debated is the far more expensive Wall Street bailout that is being conducted, as in the case of the latest AIG rescue, in secret, hurried deal-making involving primarily the unelected secretary of the treasury and the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Six months ago, we taxpayers began bailing out AIG with more than $140 billion, and then it went and lost $61.7 billion in the fourth quarter, more than any other company in history. So Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke huddled late into the night last weekend and decided to reward AIG for its startling failure with $30 billion more of our dollars. Plus, they sweetened the deal by letting the company off the hook for interest they were obligated to pay on the money we previously gave them. AIG doesn't have to pay the 10 percent interest due on the preferred stock the U.S. government got for the earlier bailout funds because it will now be paid out only at AIG's discretion, which means never. The preferred stock, which got watered down, carried a cumulative interest, meaning we taxpayers would recapture some money if the company ever got going again - but that interest obligation was waived in the new deal. 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