If anyone is still keeping score

The much-criticized "taxpayer bailout" of AIG is ending soon. The net cost to taxpayers was a PROFIT of at least $15 billion. I'm not saying the end result justified the initial rescue, but most people think that the AIG bailout was an expenditure of $182 billion in taxpayer funds. More accurately, it was an investment, albeit a risky one. The money has been returned and the Treasury made money on the rescue.

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• Thanks, I didn't know "we" made money on the deal. Why didn't "they" call it a loan in the first place?

• It wasn't a loan. The government at one point owned 91% of AIG. They have been selling the shares off and will own none at the end of the next sale.

• Yes, OP is right, we should keep bailing out more and more failed companies, and then we'll all be rich!

  Obama

• The financial system isn't fixed and anyone who believes it is, is mentally challenged.