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AIG

It had to happen sometime. This morning it was announced that U.S. regulators have closed an investigation of AIG and some of its executives over the insurance giant’s near collapse that led to a $182 billion government bailout.
Let’s take a look at the timeline of many of the events surrounding the AIG disaster (with help [...]

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I was fortunate enough to attend the W. R. Berkley Corporation’s annual luncheon yesterday at the Red Eye Grill here in Midtown Manhattan. Bill Berkley, chairman and CEO of W.R. Berkley Corp., is known for not only his intelligence and success within the insurance industry, but also for his blunt remarks and honest opinions — [...]

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Now that we all have universal health care (wait? It doesn’t really kick in for four more years? Oh), the White House has given us another piece of progress from the “probably should have happened a long time ago” file.
Yes, now that only a handful companies are still benefitting greatly from public assistance, the administration [...]

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A “phisher” looking to gain access to people’s banking details managed to upload a malicious app to the app store for Google’s Android smart phone (which is Google’s answer to the iPhone). And while it was quickly removed once discovered, this brings into question whether or not Google needs to be more stringent on the [...]

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