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PopCap: Heads Taxpayers Lose, Tails Goldman Wins

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Back in 2007, the Federal Reserve (our government, or us, the taxpayers) engineered a $182 BILLION bailout of insurance giant AIG. AIG had guaranteed humongous amounts of insurance contracts using its then triple-A grade credit rating. When it lost that credit rating its guarantees went into default and everyone demanded [...]