So…how’s that bailout thing workin’ for ya?

October 30, 2008February 13, 2021

Exactly as foretold, if this is any evidence:

The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September could have developed such a big hole by October. Some analysts say at least part of the shortfall must have been there all along, hidden by irregular accounting.

“You don’t just suddenly lose $120 billion overnight,” said Donn Vickrey of Gradient Analytics, an independent securities research firm in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Well, you don’t just lose it unless you’re on Wall Street, anyway.

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