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user-inactivated  ·  4371 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AIG May Join Lawsuit of Government over Bailout (Yeah, you read that right.)

    It's a strange kind of capitalist who thinks he should be paid for the privilege of not losing money. If AIG went under, those shareholders were sitting on a whole lot of shit.

Exactly - quote at the end something along the lines of "it was this or bankruptcy" ... but the suit passed muster in one of the two states it was filed.

    It's a strange kind of capitalist who thinks he should be paid for the privilege of not losing money.

No, no, that's just called modern banking.