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To: Tublecane

If AIG failed, it would set off a domino effect across the insurance industry and the cost of lost equity to TAXPAYERS would be infinitely larger than $85 billion.


18 posted on 09/16/2008 5:01:26 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

“If AIG failed, it would set off a domino effect across the insurance industry and the cost of lost equity to TAXPAYERS would be infinitely larger than $85 billion.”

Good! All of our economic woes stem from bad investment due to credit expansion. We need an economic contraction to sort things out. So long as the fed keeps bailing people out, we are only prolonging the crisis.


26 posted on 09/16/2008 5:05:42 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: wagglebee

Where does it end, wagglebee? How many of them can we bail out?


30 posted on 09/16/2008 5:07:28 PM PDT by AuntB ( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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