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The Number: $5 Billion
That's the amount of AIG stock the Treasury sold last Friday. In today's installment, Dan Gross explains why the figure signifies the insurance company's ascent from financial ruin to prosperity.
Published
Aug. 6 2012
1:55PM EDT
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