[lbo-talk] AIG: how to break the contracts

Charles Brown cdb1003 at prodigy.net
Tue Mar 17 17:20:25 PDT 2009


" or watch Congress tax it away with emergency legislation"

(Livid Democrats demand AIG return bailout bonuses http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090317/ap_on_go_co/aig_outrage)

^^^^^ CB: Dems and Reps are playing one up on who does more to AIG. Will it spillover to the other financial bailouts ? Tax it away sounds like the best idea to me. Or even better, a Constitutional Amendment amending the Constitutional provision saying that Congress shall make no law that impears the whatever of contracts  (smile)

Of course, the bailout itself is about a thousand times bigger than the bonuses. They are saying the US already owns 80% of AIG. So, its nationalized _de facto_. What does that mean ?

Is the bailout "working " ? What if the bailout doesn't "work" ? Are the other bailouts "working" ?



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