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Summers: AIG 'Outrageous'

Bailouts

Insurer lists firms it paid with taxpayer money.

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Who says bailouts are bad for business? One day after AIG revealed it still planned to pay bonuses to executives in the divisions where its crisis originated, the insurance giant disclosed that about two-thirds of its $160 billion bailout has been used to pay trading partners like Goldman Sachs and...

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