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Penrose On Politics: A.I.G(reedy)

15 Sunday Mar 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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  1. Michael Bersin said:

    March 15, 2009 at 11:18 pm

    …of republicans and others with an unfounded sense of entitled privilege:

    TPM via Yellow Dog at They gave us a republic:
    TPM Reader CW raises what is in many ways a more spot-on point: “Have Richard Shelby and Bob Corker held their press event demanding that AIG break their contracts with their overpaid Financial Products workers for their shoddy work?”
    Good point.

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  2. Michael Bersin said:

    March 16, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    From Hilzoy at the Washington Monthly:

    …If you want to get really angry, consider that this division, whose members will be getting nearly half a billion dollars in bonuses for the remainder of 2008 and 2009, has about 370 employees. That’s well over a million dollars a person, to a group that lost over $40 billion (so far!), and bankrupted its parent company. Nice work if you can get it…

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  3. Michael Bersin said:

    March 16, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    THE WHITE HOUSE
    Office of the Press Secretary
    _________________________________________________________________
    For Immediate Release                              March 16, 2009
    REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
    TO SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, COMMUNITY LENDERS
    AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
    East Room
    12:29 P.M. EDT…I do want to comment on the news about executive bonuses at AIG.  I think some of you have heard a little bit about this over the last few days.  This is a corporation that finds itself in financial distress due to recklessness and greed.  Under these circumstances, it’s hard to understand how derivative traders at AIG warranted any bonuses, much less $165 million in extra pay.  I mean, how do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?
    In the last six months, AIG has received substantial sums from the U.S. Treasury.  And I’ve asked Secretary Geithner to use that leverage and pursue every single legal avenue to block these bonuses and make the American taxpayers whole.  (Applause.)  I want everybody to be clear that Secretary Geithner has been on the case.  He’s working to resolve this matter with the new CEO, Edward Liddy — who, by the way, everybody needs to understand came on board after the contracts that led to these bonuses were agreed to last year.
    But I think Mr. Liddy and certainly everybody involved needs to understand this is not just a matter of dollars and cents.  It’s about our fundamental values.  All across the country, there are people who are working hard and meeting their responsibilities every day, without the benefit of government bailouts or multi-million dollar bonuses.  You’ve got a bunch of small business people here who are struggling just to keep their credit line open — that they are foregoing pay, as one of our entrepreneurs talked about, they are in some cases mortgaging their homes, and doing a whole host of things just in order to keep things afloat.  All they ask is that everyone, from Main Street to Wall Street to Washington, play by the same rules.  And that is an ethic that we have to demand.
    And what this situation also underscores is the need for overall financial regulatory reform, so we don’t find ourselves in this position again, and for some form of resolution mechanism in dealing with troubled financial institutions, so that we’ve got greater authority to protect American taxpayers and our financial system in cases such as this.
    Now, we already have resolution authority — excuse me, I’m choked up with anger here — (laughter) — we always — already have some of that resolution authority when it comes to a traditional bank.  But when you start getting into AIGs and some of these other operations that have a whole bunch of different financial instruments, then we don’t have all the regulatory power that we need.  And this is something that I expect to work with Congress to deal with in the weeks and months to come…

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