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AIG stock sale vindicates Treasury bailout

Vindication

Treasury’s $18 billion sale of AIG stocks highlights unlikeliest success of the bailout programs. Daniel Gross crunches the numbers.

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Nearly 30 months ago, in March 2010, we used this space to suggest that the stricken insurer AIG might return all its taxpayer aid. With the announcement

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