I am currently reading the August 25th issue of the New Yorker. That's, like, less than two months ago, right? There is an ad on the back cover. This is a part of what it says:
"Deciding where to invest your retirement savings can be pretty stressful. Put your mind at ease. With the AIG companies, you're tapping into more than 85 years of wisdom and expertise that can help make your retirement savings last."
And there you have it, a small piece of history, a snapshot of the world mere milliseconds before things fell apart. AIG? It now has squillions of dollars of public money from the United States government to prop it up. It may even have been a little bit naughty. All will, most likely, be revealed in due course.
