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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Paul Lester

Should the US government allow AIG to fail?

Insurance giant AIG is now the biggest corporate loss in American history with a deficit of $61.7bn. The US government today said it will provide $30bn of rescue money to the company in addition to the $150bn AIG recieved from taxpayers in 2008.

Should the federal government keep bailing out AIG?

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Update - Responses from Twitter users
berrow brings up a solid point:

Who are the AIG counter-parties that all this money is flowing to? .. WHY do we (the taxpayers) not have a right to know ?


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